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File: gdb.info, Node: Bytecode Descriptions, Next: Using Agent Expressions, Prev: General Bytecode Design, Up: Agent Expressions
E.2 Bytecode Descriptions
=========================
Each bytecode description has the following form:
`add' (0x02): A B => A+B
Pop the top two stack items, A and B, as integers; push their sum,
as an integer.
In this example, `add' is the name of the bytecode, and `(0x02)' is
the one-byte value used to encode the bytecode, in hexadecimal. The
phrase "A B => A+B" shows the stack before and after the bytecode
executes. Beforehand, the stack must contain at least two values, A
and B; since the top of the stack is to the right, B is on the top of
the stack, and A is underneath it. After execution, the bytecode will
have popped A and B from the stack, and replaced them with a single
value, A+B. There may be other values on the stack below those shown,
but the bytecode affects only those shown.
Here is another example:
`const8' (0x22) N: => N
Push the 8-bit integer constant N on the stack, without sign
extension.
In this example, the bytecode `const8' takes an operand N directly
from the bytecode stream; the operand follows the `const8' bytecode
itself. We write any such operands immediately after the name of the
bytecode, before the colon, and describe the exact encoding of the
operand in the bytecode stream in the body of the bytecode description.
For the `const8' bytecode, there are no stack items given before the
=>; this simply means that the bytecode consumes no values from the
stack. If a bytecode consumes no values, or produces no values, the
list on either side of the => may be empty.
If a value is written as A, B, or N, then the bytecode treats it as
an integer. If a value is written is ADDR, then the bytecode treats it
as an address.
We do not fully describe the floating point operations here; although
this design can be extended in a clean way to handle floating point
values, they are not of immediate interest to the customer, so we avoid
describing them, to save time.
`float' (0x01): =>
Prefix for floating-point bytecodes. Not implemented yet.
`add' (0x02): A B => A+B
Pop two integers from the stack, and push their sum, as an integer.
`sub' (0x03): A B => A-B
Pop two integers from the stack, subtract the top value from the
next-to-top value, and push the difference.
`mul' (0x04): A B => A*B
Pop two integers from the stack, multiply them, and push the
product on the stack. Note that, when one multiplies two N-bit
numbers yielding another N-bit number, it is irrelevant whether the
numbers are signed or not; the results are the same.
`div_signed' (0x05): A B => A/B
Pop two signed integers from the stack; divide the next-to-top
value by the top value, and push the quotient. If the divisor is
zero, terminate with an error.
`div_unsigned' (0x06): A B => A/B
Pop two unsigned integers from the stack; divide the next-to-top
value by the top value, and push the quotient. If the divisor is
zero, terminate with an error.
`rem_signed' (0x07): A B => A MODULO B
Pop two signed integers from the stack; divide the next-to-top
value by the top value, and push the remainder. If the divisor is
zero, terminate with an error.
`rem_unsigned' (0x08): A B => A MODULO B
Pop two unsigned integers from the stack; divide the next-to-top
value by the top value, and push the remainder. If the divisor is
zero, terminate with an error.
`lsh' (0x09): A B => A<<B
Pop two integers from the stack; let A be the next-to-top value,
and B be the top value. Shift A left by B bits, and push the
result.
`rsh_signed' (0x0a): A B => `(signed)'A>>B
Pop two integers from the stack; let A be the next-to-top value,
and B be the top value. Shift A right by B bits, inserting copies
of the top bit at the high end, and push the result.
`rsh_unsigned' (0x0b): A B => A>>B
Pop two integers from the stack; let A be the next-to-top value,
and B be the top value. Shift A right by B bits, inserting zero
bits at the high end, and push the result.
`log_not' (0x0e): A => !A
Pop an integer from the stack; if it is zero, push the value one;
otherwise, push the value zero.
`bit_and' (0x0f): A B => A&B
Pop two integers from the stack, and push their bitwise `and'.
`bit_or' (0x10): A B => A|B
Pop two integers from the stack, and push their bitwise `or'.
`bit_xor' (0x11): A B => A^B
Pop two integers from the stack, and push their bitwise
exclusive-`or'.
`bit_not' (0x12): A => ~A
Pop an integer from the stack, and push its bitwise complement.
`equal' (0x13): A B => A=B
Pop two integers from the stack; if they are equal, push the value
one; otherwise, push the value zero.
`less_signed' (0x14): A B => A<B
Pop two signed integers from the stack; if the next-to-top value
is less than the top value, push the value one; otherwise, push
the value zero.
`less_unsigned' (0x15): A B => A<B
Pop two unsigned integers from the stack; if the next-to-top value
is less than the top value, push the value one; otherwise, push
the value zero.
`ext' (0x16) N: A => A, sign-extended from N bits
Pop an unsigned value from the stack; treating it as an N-bit
twos-complement value, extend it to full length. This means that
all bits to the left of bit N-1 (where the least significant bit
is bit 0) are set to the value of bit N-1. Note that N may be
larger than or equal to the width of the stack elements of the
bytecode engine; in this case, the bytecode should have no effect.
The number of source bits to preserve, N, is encoded as a single
byte unsigned integer following the `ext' bytecode.
`zero_ext' (0x2a) N: A => A, zero-extended from N bits
Pop an unsigned value from the stack; zero all but the bottom N
bits. This means that all bits to the left of bit N-1 (where the
least significant bit is bit 0) are set to the value of bit N-1.
The number of source bits to preserve, N, is encoded as a single
byte unsigned integer following the `zero_ext' bytecode.
`ref8' (0x17): ADDR => A
`ref16' (0x18): ADDR => A
`ref32' (0x19): ADDR => A
`ref64' (0x1a): ADDR => A
Pop an address ADDR from the stack. For bytecode `ref'N, fetch an
N-bit value from ADDR, using the natural target endianness. Push
the fetched value as an unsigned integer.
Note that ADDR may not be aligned in any particular way; the
`refN' bytecodes should operate correctly for any address.
If attempting to access memory at ADDR would cause a processor
exception of some sort, terminate with an error.
`ref_float' (0x1b): ADDR => D
`ref_double' (0x1c): ADDR => D
`ref_long_double' (0x1d): ADDR => D
`l_to_d' (0x1e): A => D
`d_to_l' (0x1f): D => A
Not implemented yet.
`dup' (0x28): A => A A
Push another copy of the stack's top element.
`swap' (0x2b): A B => B A
Exchange the top two items on the stack.
`pop' (0x29): A =>
Discard the top value on the stack.
`if_goto' (0x20) OFFSET: A =>
Pop an integer off the stack; if it is non-zero, branch to the
given offset in the bytecode string. Otherwise, continue to the
next instruction in the bytecode stream. In other words, if A is
non-zero, set the `pc' register to `start' + OFFSET. Thus, an
offset of zero denotes the beginning of the expression.
The OFFSET is stored as a sixteen-bit unsigned value, stored
immediately following the `if_goto' bytecode. It is always stored
most significant byte first, regardless of the target's normal
endianness. The offset is not guaranteed to fall at any particular
alignment within the bytecode stream; thus, on machines where
fetching a 16-bit on an unaligned address raises an exception, you
should fetch the offset one byte at a time.
`goto' (0x21) OFFSET: =>
Branch unconditionally to OFFSET; in other words, set the `pc'
register to `start' + OFFSET.
The offset is stored in the same way as for the `if_goto' bytecode.
`const8' (0x22) N: => N
`const16' (0x23) N: => N
`const32' (0x24) N: => N
`const64' (0x25) N: => N
Push the integer constant N on the stack, without sign extension.
To produce a small negative value, push a small twos-complement
value, and then sign-extend it using the `ext' bytecode.
The constant N is stored in the appropriate number of bytes
following the `const'B bytecode. The constant N is always stored
most significant byte first, regardless of the target's normal
endianness. The constant is not guaranteed to fall at any
particular alignment within the bytecode stream; thus, on machines
where fetching a 16-bit on an unaligned address raises an
exception, you should fetch N one byte at a time.
`reg' (0x26) N: => A
Push the value of register number N, without sign extension. The
registers are numbered following GDB's conventions.
The register number N is encoded as a 16-bit unsigned integer
immediately following the `reg' bytecode. It is always stored most
significant byte first, regardless of the target's normal
endianness. The register number is not guaranteed to fall at any
particular alignment within the bytecode stream; thus, on machines
where fetching a 16-bit on an unaligned address raises an
exception, you should fetch the register number one byte at a time.
`getv' (0x2c) N: => V
Push the value of trace state variable number N, without sign
extension.
The variable number N is encoded as a 16-bit unsigned integer
immediately following the `getv' bytecode. It is always stored
most significant byte first, regardless of the target's normal
endianness. The variable number is not guaranteed to fall at any
particular alignment within the bytecode stream; thus, on machines
where fetching a 16-bit on an unaligned address raises an
exception, you should fetch the register number one byte at a time.
`setv' (0x2d) N: => V
Set trace state variable number N to the value found on the top of
the stack. The stack is unchanged, so that the value is readily
available if the assignment is part of a larger expression. The
handling of N is as described for `getv'.
`trace' (0x0c): ADDR SIZE =>
Record the contents of the SIZE bytes at ADDR in a trace buffer,
for later retrieval by GDB.
`trace_quick' (0x0d) SIZE: ADDR => ADDR
Record the contents of the SIZE bytes at ADDR in a trace buffer,
for later retrieval by GDB. SIZE is a single byte unsigned
integer following the `trace' opcode.
This bytecode is equivalent to the sequence `dup const8 SIZE
trace', but we provide it anyway to save space in bytecode strings.
`trace16' (0x30) SIZE: ADDR => ADDR
Identical to trace_quick, except that SIZE is a 16-bit big-endian
unsigned integer, not a single byte. This should probably have
been named `trace_quick16', for consistency.
`tracev' (0x2e) N: => A
Record the value of trace state variable number N in the trace
buffer. The handling of N is as described for `getv'.
`end' (0x27): =>
Stop executing bytecode; the result should be the top element of
the stack. If the purpose of the expression was to compute an
lvalue or a range of memory, then the next-to-top of the stack is
the lvalue's address, and the top of the stack is the lvalue's
size, in bytes.

File: gdb.info, Node: Using Agent Expressions, Next: Varying Target Capabilities, Prev: Bytecode Descriptions, Up: Agent Expressions
E.3 Using Agent Expressions
===========================
Agent expressions can be used in several different ways by GDB, and the
debugger can generate different bytecode sequences as appropriate.
One possibility is to do expression evaluation on the target rather
than the host, such as for the conditional of a conditional tracepoint.
In such a case, GDB compiles the source expression into a bytecode
sequence that simply gets values from registers or memory, does
arithmetic, and returns a result.
Another way to use agent expressions is for tracepoint data
collection. GDB generates a different bytecode sequence for
collection; in addition to bytecodes that do the calculation, GDB adds
`trace' bytecodes to save the pieces of memory that were used.
* The user selects trace points in the program's code at which GDB
should collect data.
* The user specifies expressions to evaluate at each trace point.
These expressions may denote objects in memory, in which case
those objects' contents are recorded as the program runs, or
computed values, in which case the values themselves are recorded.
* GDB transmits the tracepoints and their associated expressions to
the GDB agent, running on the debugging target.
* The agent arranges to be notified when a trace point is hit.
* When execution on the target reaches a trace point, the agent
evaluates the expressions associated with that trace point, and
records the resulting values and memory ranges.
* Later, when the user selects a given trace event and inspects the
objects and expression values recorded, GDB talks to the agent to
retrieve recorded data as necessary to meet the user's requests.
If the user asks to see an object whose contents have not been
recorded, GDB reports an error.

File: gdb.info, Node: Varying Target Capabilities, Next: Rationale, Prev: Using Agent Expressions, Up: Agent Expressions
E.4 Varying Target Capabilities
===============================
Some targets don't support floating-point, and some would rather not
have to deal with `long long' operations. Also, different targets will
have different stack sizes, and different bytecode buffer lengths.
Thus, GDB needs a way to ask the target about itself. We haven't
worked out the details yet, but in general, GDB should be able to send
the target a packet asking it to describe itself. The reply should be a
packet whose length is explicit, so we can add new information to the
packet in future revisions of the agent, without confusing old versions
of GDB, and it should contain a version number. It should contain at
least the following information:
* whether floating point is supported
* whether `long long' is supported
* maximum acceptable size of bytecode stack
* maximum acceptable length of bytecode expressions
* which registers are actually available for collection
* whether the target supports disabled tracepoints

File: gdb.info, Node: Rationale, Prev: Varying Target Capabilities, Up: Agent Expressions
E.5 Rationale
=============
Some of the design decisions apparent above are arguable.
What about stack overflow/underflow?
GDB should be able to query the target to discover its stack size.
Given that information, GDB can determine at translation time
whether a given expression will overflow the stack. But this spec
isn't about what kinds of error-checking GDB ought to do.
Why are you doing everything in LONGEST?
Speed isn't important, but agent code size is; using LONGEST
brings in a bunch of support code to do things like division, etc.
So this is a serious concern.
First, note that you don't need different bytecodes for different
operand sizes. You can generate code without _knowing_ how big the
stack elements actually are on the target. If the target only
supports 32-bit ints, and you don't send any 64-bit bytecodes,
everything just works. The observation here is that the MIPS and
the Alpha have only fixed-size registers, and you can still get
C's semantics even though most instructions only operate on
full-sized words. You just need to make sure everything is
properly sign-extended at the right times. So there is no need
for 32- and 64-bit variants of the bytecodes. Just implement
everything using the largest size you support.
GDB should certainly check to see what sizes the target supports,
so the user can get an error earlier, rather than later. But this
information is not necessary for correctness.
Why don't you have `>' or `<=' operators?
I want to keep the interpreter small, and we don't need them. We
can combine the `less_' opcodes with `log_not', and swap the order
of the operands, yielding all four asymmetrical comparison
operators. For example, `(x <= y)' is `! (x > y)', which is `! (y
< x)'.
Why do you have `log_not'?
Why do you have `ext'?
Why do you have `zero_ext'?
These are all easily synthesized from other instructions, but I
expect them to be used frequently, and they're simple, so I
include them to keep bytecode strings short.
`log_not' is equivalent to `const8 0 equal'; it's used in half the
relational operators.
`ext N' is equivalent to `const8 S-N lsh const8 S-N rsh_signed',
where S is the size of the stack elements; it follows `refM' and
REG bytecodes when the value should be signed. See the next
bulleted item.
`zero_ext N' is equivalent to `constM MASK log_and'; it's used
whenever we push the value of a register, because we can't assume
the upper bits of the register aren't garbage.
Why not have sign-extending variants of the `ref' operators?
Because that would double the number of `ref' operators, and we
need the `ext' bytecode anyway for accessing bitfields.
Why not have constant-address variants of the `ref' operators?
Because that would double the number of `ref' operators again, and
`const32 ADDRESS ref32' is only one byte longer.
Why do the `refN' operators have to support unaligned fetches?
GDB will generate bytecode that fetches multi-byte values at
unaligned addresses whenever the executable's debugging
information tells it to. Furthermore, GDB does not know the value
the pointer will have when GDB generates the bytecode, so it
cannot determine whether a particular fetch will be aligned or not.
In particular, structure bitfields may be several bytes long, but
follow no alignment rules; members of packed structures are not
necessarily aligned either.
In general, there are many cases where unaligned references occur
in correct C code, either at the programmer's explicit request, or
at the compiler's discretion. Thus, it is simpler to make the GDB
agent bytecodes work correctly in all circumstances than to make
GDB guess in each case whether the compiler did the usual thing.
Why are there no side-effecting operators?
Because our current client doesn't want them? That's a cheap
answer. I think the real answer is that I'm afraid of
implementing function calls. We should re-visit this issue after
the present contract is delivered.
Why aren't the `goto' ops PC-relative?
The interpreter has the base address around anyway for PC bounds
checking, and it seemed simpler.
Why is there only one offset size for the `goto' ops?
Offsets are currently sixteen bits. I'm not happy with this
situation either:
Suppose we have multiple branch ops with different offset sizes.
As I generate code left-to-right, all my jumps are forward jumps
(there are no loops in expressions), so I never know the target
when I emit the jump opcode. Thus, I have to either always assume
the largest offset size, or do jump relaxation on the code after I
generate it, which seems like a big waste of time.
I can imagine a reasonable expression being longer than 256 bytes.
I can't imagine one being longer than 64k. Thus, we need 16-bit
offsets. This kind of reasoning is so bogus, but relaxation is
pathetic.
The other approach would be to generate code right-to-left. Then
I'd always know my offset size. That might be fun.
Where is the function call bytecode?
When we add side-effects, we should add this.
Why does the `reg' bytecode take a 16-bit register number?
Intel's IA-64 architecture has 128 general-purpose registers, and
128 floating-point registers, and I'm sure it has some random
control registers.
Why do we need `trace' and `trace_quick'?
Because GDB needs to record all the memory contents and registers
an expression touches. If the user wants to evaluate an expression
`x->y->z', the agent must record the values of `x' and `x->y' as
well as the value of `x->y->z'.
Don't the `trace' bytecodes make the interpreter less general?
They do mean that the interpreter contains special-purpose code,
but that doesn't mean the interpreter can only be used for that
purpose. If an expression doesn't use the `trace' bytecodes, they
don't get in its way.
Why doesn't `trace_quick' consume its arguments the way everything else does?
In general, you do want your operators to consume their arguments;
it's consistent, and generally reduces the amount of stack
rearrangement necessary. However, `trace_quick' is a kludge to
save space; it only exists so we needn't write `dup const8 SIZE
trace' before every memory reference. Therefore, it's okay for it
not to consume its arguments; it's meant for a specific context in
which we know exactly what it should do with the stack. If we're
going to have a kludge, it should be an effective kludge.
Why does `trace16' exist?
That opcode was added by the customer that contracted Cygnus for
the data tracing work. I personally think it is unnecessary;
objects that large will be quite rare, so it is okay to use `dup
const16 SIZE trace' in those cases.
Whatever we decide to do with `trace16', we should at least leave
opcode 0x30 reserved, to remain compatible with the customer who
added it.

File: gdb.info, Node: Trace File Format, Next: Copying, Prev: Operating System Information, Up: Top
Appendix F Trace File Format
****************************
The trace file comes in three parts: a header, a textual description
section, and a trace frame section with binary data.
The header has the form `\x7fTRACE0\n'. The first byte is `0x7f' so
as to indicate that the file contains binary data, while the `0' is a
version number that may have different values in the future.
The description section consists of multiple lines of ASCII text
separated by newline characters (`0xa'). The lines may include a
variety of optional descriptive or context-setting information, such as
tracepoint definitions or register set size. GDB will ignore any line
that it does not recognize. An empty line marks the end of this
section.
The trace frame section consists of a number of consecutive frames.
Each frame begins with a two-byte tracepoint number, followed by a
four-byte size giving the amount of data in the frame. The data in the
frame consists of a number of blocks, each introduced by a character
indicating its type (at least register, memory, and trace state
variable). The data in this section is raw binary, not a hexadecimal
or other encoding; its endianness matches the target's endianness.
`R BYTES'
Register block. The number and ordering of bytes matches that of a
`g' packet in the remote protocol. Note that these are the actual
bytes, in target order and GDB register order, not a hexadecimal
encoding.
`M ADDRESS LENGTH BYTES...'
Memory block. This is a contiguous block of memory, at the 8-byte
address ADDRESS, with a 2-byte length LENGTH, followed by LENGTH
bytes.
`V NUMBER VALUE'
Trace state variable block. This records the 8-byte signed value
VALUE of trace state variable numbered NUMBER.
Future enhancements of the trace file format may include additional
types of blocks.

File: gdb.info, Node: Target Descriptions, Next: Operating System Information, Prev: Agent Expressions, Up: Top
Appendix G Target Descriptions
******************************
*Warning:* target descriptions are still under active development, and
the contents and format may change between GDB releases. The format is
expected to stabilize in the future.
One of the challenges of using GDB to debug embedded systems is that
there are so many minor variants of each processor architecture in use.
It is common practice for vendors to start with a standard processor
core -- ARM, PowerPC, or MIPS, for example -- and then make changes to
adapt it to a particular market niche. Some architectures have
hundreds of variants, available from dozens of vendors. This leads to
a number of problems:
* With so many different customized processors, it is difficult for
the GDB maintainers to keep up with the changes.
* Since individual variants may have short lifetimes or limited
audiences, it may not be worthwhile to carry information about
every variant in the GDB source tree.
* When GDB does support the architecture of the embedded system at
hand, the task of finding the correct architecture name to give the
`set architecture' command can be error-prone.
To address these problems, the GDB remote protocol allows a target
system to not only identify itself to GDB, but to actually describe its
own features. This lets GDB support processor variants it has never
seen before -- to the extent that the descriptions are accurate, and
that GDB understands them.
GDB must be linked with the Expat library to support XML target
descriptions. *Note Expat::.
* Menu:
* Retrieving Descriptions:: How descriptions are fetched from a target.
* Target Description Format:: The contents of a target description.
* Predefined Target Types:: Standard types available for target
descriptions.
* Standard Target Features:: Features GDB knows about.

File: gdb.info, Node: Retrieving Descriptions, Next: Target Description Format, Up: Target Descriptions
G.1 Retrieving Descriptions
===========================
Target descriptions can be read from the target automatically, or
specified by the user manually. The default behavior is to read the
description from the target. GDB retrieves it via the remote protocol
using `qXfer' requests (*note qXfer: General Query Packets.). The
ANNEX in the `qXfer' packet will be `target.xml'. The contents of the
`target.xml' annex are an XML document, of the form described in *Note
Target Description Format::.
Alternatively, you can specify a file to read for the target
description. If a file is set, the target will not be queried. The
commands to specify a file are:
`set tdesc filename PATH'
Read the target description from PATH.
`unset tdesc filename'
Do not read the XML target description from a file. GDB will use
the description supplied by the current target.
`show tdesc filename'
Show the filename to read for a target description, if any.

File: gdb.info, Node: Target Description Format, Next: Predefined Target Types, Prev: Retrieving Descriptions, Up: Target Descriptions
G.2 Target Description Format
=============================
A target description annex is an XML (http://www.w3.org/XML/) document
which complies with the Document Type Definition provided in the GDB
sources in `gdb/features/gdb-target.dtd'. This means you can use
generally available tools like `xmllint' to check that your feature
descriptions are well-formed and valid. However, to help people
unfamiliar with XML write descriptions for their targets, we also
describe the grammar here.
Target descriptions can identify the architecture of the remote
target and (for some architectures) provide information about custom
register sets. They can also identify the OS ABI of the remote target.
GDB can use this information to autoconfigure for your target, or to
warn you if you connect to an unsupported target.
Here is a simple target description:
<target version="1.0">
<architecture>i386:x86-64</architecture>
</target>
This minimal description only says that the target uses the x86-64
architecture.
A target description has the following overall form, with [ ] marking
optional elements and ... marking repeatable elements. The elements
are explained further below.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target version="1.0">
[ARCHITECTURE]
[OSABI]
[COMPATIBLE]
[FEATURE...]
</target>
The description is generally insensitive to whitespace and line breaks,
under the usual common-sense rules. The XML version declaration and
document type declaration can generally be omitted (GDB does not
require them), but specifying them may be useful for XML validation
tools. The `version' attribute for `<target>' may also be omitted, but
we recommend including it; if future versions of GDB use an incompatible
revision of `gdb-target.dtd', they will detect and report the version
mismatch.
G.2.1 Inclusion
---------------
It can sometimes be valuable to split a target description up into
several different annexes, either for organizational purposes, or to
share files between different possible target descriptions. You can
divide a description into multiple files by replacing any element of
the target description with an inclusion directive of the form:
<xi:include href="DOCUMENT"/>
When GDB encounters an element of this form, it will retrieve the named
XML DOCUMENT, and replace the inclusion directive with the contents of
that document. If the current description was read using `qXfer', then
so will be the included document; DOCUMENT will be interpreted as the
name of an annex. If the current description was read from a file, GDB
will look for DOCUMENT as a file in the same directory where it found
the original description.
G.2.2 Architecture
------------------
An `<architecture>' element has this form:
<architecture>ARCH</architecture>
ARCH is one of the architectures from the set accepted by `set
architecture' (*note Specifying a Debugging Target: Targets.).
G.2.3 OS ABI
------------
This optional field was introduced in GDB version 7.0. Previous
versions of GDB ignore it.
An `<osabi>' element has this form:
<osabi>ABI-NAME</osabi>
ABI-NAME is an OS ABI name from the same selection accepted by
`set osabi' (*note Configuring the Current ABI: ABI.).
G.2.4 Compatible Architecture
-----------------------------
This optional field was introduced in GDB version 7.0. Previous
versions of GDB ignore it.
A `<compatible>' element has this form:
<compatible>ARCH</compatible>
ARCH is one of the architectures from the set accepted by `set
architecture' (*note Specifying a Debugging Target: Targets.).
A `<compatible>' element is used to specify that the target is able
to run binaries in some other than the main target architecture given
by the `<architecture>' element. For example, on the Cell Broadband
Engine, the main architecture is `powerpc:common' or
`powerpc:common64', but the system is able to run binaries in the `spu'
architecture as well. The way to describe this capability with
`<compatible>' is as follows:
<architecture>powerpc:common</architecture>
<compatible>spu</compatible>
G.2.5 Features
--------------
Each `<feature>' describes some logical portion of the target system.
Features are currently used to describe available CPU registers and the
types of their contents. A `<feature>' element has this form:
<feature name="NAME">
[TYPE...]
REG...
</feature>
Each feature's name should be unique within the description. The name
of a feature does not matter unless GDB has some special knowledge of
the contents of that feature; if it does, the feature should have its
standard name. *Note Standard Target Features::.
G.2.6 Types
-----------
Any register's value is a collection of bits which GDB must interpret.
The default interpretation is a two's complement integer, but other
types can be requested by name in the register description. Some
predefined types are provided by GDB (*note Predefined Target Types::),
and the description can define additional composite types.
Each type element must have an `id' attribute, which gives a unique
(within the containing `<feature>') name to the type. Types must be
defined before they are used.
Some targets offer vector registers, which can be treated as arrays
of scalar elements. These types are written as `<vector>' elements,
specifying the array element type, TYPE, and the number of elements,
COUNT:
<vector id="ID" type="TYPE" count="COUNT"/>
If a register's value is usefully viewed in multiple ways, define it
with a union type containing the useful representations. The `<union>'
element contains one or more `<field>' elements, each of which has a
NAME and a TYPE:
<union id="ID">
<field name="NAME" type="TYPE"/>
...
</union>
If a register's value is composed from several separate values,
define it with a structure type. There are two forms of the `<struct>'
element; a `<struct>' element must either contain only bitfields or
contain no bitfields. If the structure contains only bitfields, its
total size in bytes must be specified, each bitfield must have an
explicit start and end, and bitfields are automatically assigned an
integer type. The field's START should be less than or equal to its
END, and zero represents the least significant bit.
<struct id="ID" size="SIZE">
<field name="NAME" start="START" end="END"/>
...
</struct>
If the structure contains no bitfields, then each field has an
explicit type, and no implicit padding is added.
<struct id="ID">
<field name="NAME" type="TYPE"/>
...
</struct>
If a register's value is a series of single-bit flags, define it with
a flags type. The `<flags>' element has an explicit SIZE and contains
one or more `<field>' elements. Each field has a NAME, a START, and an
END. Only single-bit flags are supported.
<flags id="ID" size="SIZE">
<field name="NAME" start="START" end="END"/>
...
</flags>
G.2.7 Registers
---------------
Each register is represented as an element with this form:
<reg name="NAME"
bitsize="SIZE"
[regnum="NUM"]
[save-restore="SAVE-RESTORE"]
[type="TYPE"]
[group="GROUP"]/>
The components are as follows:
NAME
The register's name; it must be unique within the target
description.
BITSIZE
The register's size, in bits.
REGNUM
The register's number. If omitted, a register's number is one
greater than that of the previous register (either in the current
feature or in a preceeding feature); the first register in the
target description defaults to zero. This register number is used
to read or write the register; e.g. it is used in the remote `p'
and `P' packets, and registers appear in the `g' and `G' packets
in order of increasing register number.
SAVE-RESTORE
Whether the register should be preserved across inferior function
calls; this must be either `yes' or `no'. The default is `yes',
which is appropriate for most registers except for some system
control registers; this is not related to the target's ABI.
TYPE
The type of the register. TYPE may be a predefined type, a type
defined in the current feature, or one of the special types `int'
and `float'. `int' is an integer type of the correct size for
BITSIZE, and `float' is a floating point type (in the
architecture's normal floating point format) of the correct size
for BITSIZE. The default is `int'.
GROUP
The register group to which this register belongs. GROUP must be
either `general', `float', or `vector'. If no GROUP is specified,
GDB will not display the register in `info registers'.

File: gdb.info, Node: Predefined Target Types, Next: Standard Target Features, Prev: Target Description Format, Up: Target Descriptions
G.3 Predefined Target Types
===========================
Type definitions in the self-description can build up composite types
from basic building blocks, but can not define fundamental types.
Instead, standard identifiers are provided by GDB for the fundamental
types. The currently supported types are:
`int8'
`int16'
`int32'
`int64'
`int128'
Signed integer types holding the specified number of bits.
`uint8'
`uint16'
`uint32'
`uint64'
`uint128'
Unsigned integer types holding the specified number of bits.
`code_ptr'
`data_ptr'
Pointers to unspecified code and data. The program counter and
any dedicated return address register may be marked as code
pointers; printing a code pointer converts it into a symbolic
address. The stack pointer and any dedicated address registers
may be marked as data pointers.
`ieee_single'
Single precision IEEE floating point.
`ieee_double'
Double precision IEEE floating point.
`arm_fpa_ext'
The 12-byte extended precision format used by ARM FPA registers.
`i387_ext'
The 10-byte extended precision format used by x87 registers.
`i386_eflags'
32bit EFLAGS register used by x86.
`i386_mxcsr'
32bit MXCSR register used by x86.

File: gdb.info, Node: Standard Target Features, Prev: Predefined Target Types, Up: Target Descriptions
G.4 Standard Target Features
============================
A target description must contain either no registers or all the
target's registers. If the description contains no registers, then GDB
will assume a default register layout, selected based on the
architecture. If the description contains any registers, the default
layout will not be used; the standard registers must be described in
the target description, in such a way that GDB can recognize them.
This is accomplished by giving specific names to feature elements
which contain standard registers. GDB will look for features with
those names and verify that they contain the expected registers; if any
known feature is missing required registers, or if any required feature
is missing, GDB will reject the target description. You can add
additional registers to any of the standard features -- GDB will
display them just as if they were added to an unrecognized feature.
This section lists the known features and their expected contents.
Sample XML documents for these features are included in the GDB source
tree, in the directory `gdb/features'.
Names recognized by GDB should include the name of the company or
organization which selected the name, and the overall architecture to
which the feature applies; so e.g. the feature containing ARM core
registers is named `org.gnu.gdb.arm.core'.
The names of registers are not case sensitive for the purpose of
recognizing standard features, but GDB will only display registers
using the capitalization used in the description.
* Menu:
* ARM Features::
* i386 Features::
* MIPS Features::
* M68K Features::
* PowerPC Features::

File: gdb.info, Node: ARM Features, Next: i386 Features, Up: Standard Target Features
G.4.1 ARM Features
------------------
The `org.gnu.gdb.arm.core' feature is required for ARM targets. It
should contain registers `r0' through `r13', `sp', `lr', `pc', and
`cpsr'.
The `org.gnu.gdb.arm.fpa' feature is optional. If present, it
should contain registers `f0' through `f7' and `fps'.
The `org.gnu.gdb.xscale.iwmmxt' feature is optional. If present, it
should contain at least registers `wR0' through `wR15' and `wCGR0'
through `wCGR3'. The `wCID', `wCon', `wCSSF', and `wCASF' registers
are optional.
The `org.gnu.gdb.arm.vfp' feature is optional. If present, it
should contain at least registers `d0' through `d15'. If they are
present, `d16' through `d31' should also be included. GDB will
synthesize the single-precision registers from halves of the
double-precision registers.
The `org.gnu.gdb.arm.neon' feature is optional. It does not need to
contain registers; it instructs GDB to display the VFP double-precision
registers as vectors and to synthesize the quad-precision registers
from pairs of double-precision registers. If this feature is present,
`org.gnu.gdb.arm.vfp' must also be present and include 32
double-precision registers.

File: gdb.info, Node: i386 Features, Next: MIPS Features, Prev: ARM Features, Up: Standard Target Features
G.4.2 i386 Features
-------------------
The `org.gnu.gdb.i386.core' feature is required for i386/amd64 targets.
It should describe the following registers:
- `eax' through `edi' plus `eip' for i386
- `rax' through `r15' plus `rip' for amd64
- `eflags', `cs', `ss', `ds', `es', `fs', `gs'
- `st0' through `st7'
- `fctrl', `fstat', `ftag', `fiseg', `fioff', `foseg', `fooff' and
`fop'
The register sets may be different, depending on the target.
The `org.gnu.gdb.i386.sse' feature is optional. It should describe
registers:
- `xmm0' through `xmm7' for i386
- `xmm0' through `xmm15' for amd64
- `mxcsr'
The `org.gnu.gdb.i386.avx' feature is optional and requires the
`org.gnu.gdb.i386.sse' feature. It should describe the upper 128 bits
of YMM registers:
- `ymm0h' through `ymm7h' for i386
- `ymm0h' through `ymm15h' for amd64
-
The `org.gnu.gdb.i386.linux' feature is optional. It should
describe a single register, `orig_eax'.

File: gdb.info, Node: MIPS Features, Next: M68K Features, Prev: i386 Features, Up: Standard Target Features
G.4.3 MIPS Features
-------------------
The `org.gnu.gdb.mips.cpu' feature is required for MIPS targets. It
should contain registers `r0' through `r31', `lo', `hi', and `pc'.
They may be 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the target.
The `org.gnu.gdb.mips.cp0' feature is also required. It should
contain at least the `status', `badvaddr', and `cause' registers. They
may be 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the target.
The `org.gnu.gdb.mips.fpu' feature is currently required, though it
may be optional in a future version of GDB. It should contain
registers `f0' through `f31', `fcsr', and `fir'. They may be 32-bit or
64-bit depending on the target.
The `org.gnu.gdb.mips.linux' feature is optional. It should contain
a single register, `restart', which is used by the Linux kernel to
control restartable syscalls.

File: gdb.info, Node: M68K Features, Next: PowerPC Features, Prev: MIPS Features, Up: Standard Target Features
G.4.4 M68K Features
-------------------
``org.gnu.gdb.m68k.core''
``org.gnu.gdb.coldfire.core''
``org.gnu.gdb.fido.core''
One of those features must be always present. The feature that is
present determines which flavor of m68k is used. The feature that
is present should contain registers `d0' through `d7', `a0'
through `a5', `fp', `sp', `ps' and `pc'.
``org.gnu.gdb.coldfire.fp''
This feature is optional. If present, it should contain registers
`fp0' through `fp7', `fpcontrol', `fpstatus' and `fpiaddr'.

File: gdb.info, Node: PowerPC Features, Prev: M68K Features, Up: Standard Target Features
G.4.5 PowerPC Features
----------------------
The `org.gnu.gdb.power.core' feature is required for PowerPC targets.
It should contain registers `r0' through `r31', `pc', `msr', `cr',
`lr', `ctr', and `xer'. They may be 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the
target.
The `org.gnu.gdb.power.fpu' feature is optional. It should contain
registers `f0' through `f31' and `fpscr'.
The `org.gnu.gdb.power.altivec' feature is optional. It should
contain registers `vr0' through `vr31', `vscr', and `vrsave'.
The `org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx' feature is optional. It should contain
registers `vs0h' through `vs31h'. GDB will combine these registers
with the floating point registers (`f0' through `f31') and the altivec
registers (`vr0' through `vr31') to present the 128-bit wide registers
`vs0' through `vs63', the set of vector registers for POWER7.
The `org.gnu.gdb.power.spe' feature is optional. It should contain
registers `ev0h' through `ev31h', `acc', and `spefscr'. SPE targets
should provide 32-bit registers in `org.gnu.gdb.power.core' and provide
the upper halves in `ev0h' through `ev31h'. GDB will combine these to
present registers `ev0' through `ev31' to the user.

File: gdb.info, Node: Operating System Information, Next: Trace File Format, Prev: Target Descriptions, Up: Top
Appendix H Operating System Information
***************************************
* Menu:
* Process list::
Users of GDB often wish to obtain information about the state of the
operating system running on the target--for example the list of
processes, or the list of open files. This section describes the
mechanism that makes it possible. This mechanism is similar to the
target features mechanism (*note Target Descriptions::), but focuses on
a different aspect of target.
Operating system information is retrived from the target via the
remote protocol, using `qXfer' requests (*note qXfer osdata read::).
The object name in the request should be `osdata', and the ANNEX
identifies the data to be fetched.

File: gdb.info, Node: Process list, Up: Operating System Information
H.1 Process list
================
When requesting the process list, the ANNEX field in the `qXfer'
request should be `processes'. The returned data is an XML document.
The formal syntax of this document is defined in
`gdb/features/osdata.dtd'.
An example document is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "osdata.dtd">
<osdata type="processes">
<item>
<column name="pid">1</column>
<column name="user">root</column>
<column name="command">/sbin/init</column>
<column name="cores">1,2,3</column>
</item>
</osdata>
Each item should include a column whose name is `pid'. The value of
that column should identify the process on the target. The `user' and
`command' columns are optional, and will be displayed by GDB. The
`cores' column, if present, should contain a comma-separated list of
cores that this process is running on. Target may provide additional
columns, which GDB currently ignores.

File: gdb.info, Node: Copying, Next: GNU Free Documentation License, Prev: Trace File Format, Up: Top
Appendix I GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Appendix J GNU Free Documentation License
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Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
`http://fsf.org/'
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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0. PREAMBLE
The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
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We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for
free software, because free software needs free documentation: a
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that the software does. But this License is not limited to
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of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book.
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2. VERBATIM COPYING
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other respects.
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reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto
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and add to it an item stating at least the title, year, new
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J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document
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work that was published at least four years before the
Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version
it refers to gives permission.
K. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",
Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the
section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor
acknowledgements and/or dedications given therein.
L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
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or the equivalent are not considered part of the section
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may not be included in the Modified Version.
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nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
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has been approved by an organization as the authoritative
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ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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