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1 /* Interface to C preprocessor macro expansion for GDB.
2 Copyright (C) 2002-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Red Hat, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
21 #ifndef MACROEXP_H
22 #define MACROEXP_H
24 struct macro_scope;
26 /* Expand any preprocessor macros in SOURCE (a null-terminated string), and
27 return the expanded text.
29 Use SCOPE to find identifiers' preprocessor definitions.
31 The result is a null-terminated string. */
32 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> macro_expand (const char *source,
33 const macro_scope &scope);
35 /* Expand all preprocessor macro references that appear explicitly in SOURCE
36 (a null-terminated string), but do not expand any new macro references
37 introduced by that first level of expansion.
39 Use SCOPE to find identifiers' preprocessor definitions.
41 The result is a null-terminated string. */
42 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> macro_expand_once (const char *source,
43 const macro_scope &scope);
45 /* If the null-terminated string pointed to by *LEXPTR begins with a
46 macro invocation, return the result of expanding that invocation as
47 a null-terminated string, and set *LEXPTR to the next character
48 after the invocation. The result is completely expanded; it
49 contains no further macro invocations.
51 Otherwise, if *LEXPTR does not start with a macro invocation,
52 return nullptr, and leave *LEXPTR unchanged.
54 Use SCOPE to find macro definitions.
56 If this function returns a string, the caller is responsible for
57 freeing it, using xfree.
59 We need this expand-one-token-at-a-time interface in order to
60 accommodate GDB's C expression parser, which may not consume the
61 entire string. When the user enters a command like
63 (gdb) break *func+20 if x == 5
65 the parser is expected to consume `func+20', and then stop when it
66 sees the "if". But of course, "if" appearing in a character string
67 or as part of a larger identifier doesn't count. So you pretty
68 much have to do tokenization to find the end of the string that
69 needs to be macro-expanded. Our C/C++ tokenizer isn't really
70 designed to be called by anything but the yacc parser engine. */
71 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> macro_expand_next (const char **lexptr,
72 const macro_scope &scope);
74 /* Functions to classify characters according to cpp rules. */
76 int macro_is_whitespace (int c);
77 int macro_is_identifier_nondigit (int c);
78 int macro_is_digit (int c);
81 /* Stringify STR according to C rules and return a null-terminated string. */
82 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> macro_stringify (const char *str);
84 #endif /* MACROEXP_H */