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File: gdb.info,  Node: Architecture-Specific Protocol Details,  Next: Tracepoint Packets,  Prev: General Query Packets,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.6 Architecture-Specific Protocol Details
==========================================

This section describes how the remote protocol is applied to specific
target architectures.  Also see *note Standard Target Features::, for
details of XML target descriptions for each architecture.

* Menu:

* ARM-Specific Protocol Details::
* MIPS-Specific Protocol Details::


File: gdb.info,  Node: ARM-Specific Protocol Details,  Next: MIPS-Specific Protocol Details,  Up: Architecture-Specific Protocol Details

E.6.1 ARM-specific Protocol Details
-----------------------------------

* Menu:

* ARM Breakpoint Kinds::
* ARM Memory Tag Types::


File: gdb.info,  Node: ARM Breakpoint Kinds,  Next: ARM Memory Tag Types,  Up: ARM-Specific Protocol Details

E.6.1.1 ARM Breakpoint Kinds
............................

These breakpoint kinds are defined for the 'Z0' and 'Z1' packets.

2
     16-bit Thumb mode breakpoint.

3
     32-bit Thumb mode (Thumb-2) breakpoint.

4
     32-bit ARM mode breakpoint.


File: gdb.info,  Node: ARM Memory Tag Types,  Prev: ARM Breakpoint Kinds,  Up: ARM-Specific Protocol Details

E.6.1.2 ARM Memory Tag Types
............................

These memory tag types are defined for the 'qMemTag' and 'QMemTag'
packets.

0
     MTE logical tag

1
     MTE allocation tag


File: gdb.info,  Node: MIPS-Specific Protocol Details,  Prev: ARM-Specific Protocol Details,  Up: Architecture-Specific Protocol Details

E.6.2 MIPS-specific Protocol Details
------------------------------------

* Menu:

* MIPS Register packet Format::
* MIPS Breakpoint Kinds::


File: gdb.info,  Node: MIPS Register packet Format,  Next: MIPS Breakpoint Kinds,  Up: MIPS-Specific Protocol Details

E.6.2.1 MIPS Register Packet Format
...................................

The following 'g'/'G' packets have previously been defined.  In the
below, some thirty-two bit registers are transferred as sixty-four bits.
Those registers should be zero/sign extended (which?)  to fill the space
allocated.  Register bytes are transferred in target byte order.  The
two nibbles within a register byte are transferred most-significant -
least-significant.

MIPS32
     All registers are transferred as thirty-two bit quantities in the
     order: 32 general-purpose; sr; lo; hi; bad; cause; pc; 32
     floating-point registers; fsr; fir; fp.

MIPS64
     All registers are transferred as sixty-four bit quantities
     (including thirty-two bit registers such as 'sr').  The ordering is
     the same as 'MIPS32'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: MIPS Breakpoint Kinds,  Prev: MIPS Register packet Format,  Up: MIPS-Specific Protocol Details

E.6.2.2 MIPS Breakpoint Kinds
.............................

These breakpoint kinds are defined for the 'Z0' and 'Z1' packets.

2
     16-bit MIPS16 mode breakpoint.

3
     16-bit microMIPS mode breakpoint.

4
     32-bit standard MIPS mode breakpoint.

5
     32-bit microMIPS mode breakpoint.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Tracepoint Packets,  Next: Host I/O Packets,  Prev: Architecture-Specific Protocol Details,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.7 Tracepoint Packets
======================

Here we describe the packets GDB uses to implement tracepoints (*note
Tracepoints::).

'QTDP:N:ADDR:ENA:STEP:PASS[:FFLEN][:S][:XLEN,BYTES][-]'
     Create a new tracepoint, number N, at ADDR.  If ENA is 'E', then
     the tracepoint is enabled; if it is 'D', then the tracepoint is
     disabled.  The STEP gives the tracepoint's step count, and PASS
     gives its pass count.  If an 'F' is present, then the tracepoint is
     to be a fast tracepoint, and the FLEN is the number of bytes that
     the target should copy elsewhere to make room for the tracepoint.
     If an 'S' is present, the tracepoint is to be a static tracepoint.
     If an 'X' is present, it introduces a tracepoint condition, which
     consists of a hexadecimal length, followed by a comma and
     hex-encoded bytes, in a manner similar to action encodings as
     described below.  If the trailing '-' is present, further 'QTDP'
     packets will follow to specify this tracepoint's actions.

     Replies:
     'OK'
          The packet was understood and carried out.
     'qRelocInsn'
          *Note Relocate instruction reply packet: Tracepoint Packets.

'QTDP:-N:ADDR:[S]ACTION...[-]'
     Define actions to be taken when a tracepoint is hit.  The N and
     ADDR must be the same as in the initial 'QTDP' packet for this
     tracepoint.  This packet may only be sent immediately after another
     'QTDP' packet that ended with a '-'.  If the trailing '-' is
     present, further 'QTDP' packets will follow, specifying more
     actions for this tracepoint.

     In the series of action packets for a given tracepoint, at most one
     can have an 'S' before its first ACTION.  If such a packet is sent,
     it and the following packets define "while-stepping" actions.  Any
     prior packets define ordinary actions -- that is, those taken when
     the tracepoint is first hit.  If no action packet has an 'S', then
     all the packets in the series specify ordinary tracepoint actions.

     The 'ACTION...' portion of the packet is a series of actions,
     concatenated without separators.  Each action has one of the
     following forms:

     'R MASK'
          Collect the registers whose bits are set in MASK, a
          hexadecimal number whose I'th bit is set if register number I
          should be collected.  (The least significant bit is numbered
          zero.)  Note that MASK may be any number of digits long; it
          may not fit in a 32-bit word.

     'M BASEREG,OFFSET,LEN'
          Collect LEN bytes of memory starting at the address in
          register number BASEREG, plus OFFSET.  If BASEREG is '-1',
          then the range has a fixed address: OFFSET is the address of
          the lowest byte to collect.  The BASEREG, OFFSET, and LEN
          parameters are all unsigned hexadecimal values (the '-1' value
          for BASEREG is a special case).

     'X LEN,EXPR'
          Evaluate EXPR, whose length is LEN, and collect memory as it
          directs.  The agent expression EXPR is as described in *note
          Agent Expressions::.  Each byte of the expression is encoded
          as a two-digit hex number in the packet; LEN is the number of
          bytes in the expression (and thus one-half the number of hex
          digits in the packet).

     'L'
          Collect static trace data.

     Any number of actions may be packed together in a single 'QTDP'
     packet, as long as the packet does not exceed the maximum packet
     length (400 bytes, for many stubs).  There may be only one 'R'
     action per tracepoint, and it must precede any 'M' or 'X' actions.
     Any registers referred to by 'M' and 'X' actions must be collected
     by a preceding 'R' action.  (The "while-stepping" actions are
     treated as if they were attached to a separate tracepoint, as far
     as these restrictions are concerned.)

     Replies:
     'OK'
          The packet was understood and carried out.
     'qRelocInsn'
          *Note Relocate instruction reply packet: Tracepoint Packets.

'QTDPsrc:N:ADDR:TYPE:START:SLEN:BYTES'
     Specify a source string of tracepoint N at address ADDR.  This is
     useful to get accurate reproduction of the tracepoints originally
     downloaded at the beginning of the trace run.  The TYPE is the name
     of the tracepoint part, such as 'cond' for the tracepoint's
     conditional expression (see below for a list of types), while BYTES
     is the string, encoded in hexadecimal.

     START is the offset of the BYTES within the overall source string,
     while SLEN is the total length of the source string.  This is
     intended for handling source strings that are longer than will fit
     in a single packet.

     The available string types are 'at' for the location, 'cond' for
     the conditional, and 'cmd' for an action command.  GDB sends a
     separate packet for each command in the action list, in the same
     order in which the commands are stored in the list.

     The target does not need to do anything with source strings except
     report them back as part of the replies to the 'qTfP'/'qTsP' query
     packets.

     Although this packet is optional, and GDB will only send it if the
     target replies with 'TracepointSource' *Note General Query
     Packets::, it makes both disconnected tracing and trace files much
     easier to use.  Otherwise the user must be careful that the
     tracepoints in effect while looking at trace frames are identical
     to the ones in effect during the trace run; even a small
     discrepancy could cause 'tdump' not to work, or a particular trace
     frame not be found.

'QTDV:N:VALUE:BUILTIN:NAME'
     Create a new trace state variable, number N, with an initial value
     of VALUE, which is a 64-bit signed integer.  Both N and VALUE are
     encoded as hexadecimal values.  GDB has the option of not using
     this packet for initial values of zero; the target should simply
     create the trace state variables as they are mentioned in
     expressions.  The value BUILTIN should be 1 (one) if the trace
     state variable is builtin and 0 (zero) if it is not builtin.  GDB
     only sets BUILTIN to 1 if a previous 'qTfV' or 'qTsV' packet had it
     set.  The contents of NAME is the hex-encoded name (without the
     leading '$') of the trace state variable.

'QTFrame:N'
     Select the N'th tracepoint frame from the buffer, and use the
     register and memory contents recorded there to answer subsequent
     request packets from GDB.

     A successful reply from the stub indicates that the stub has found
     the requested frame.  The response is a series of parts,
     concatenated without separators, describing the frame we selected.
     Each part has one of the following forms:

     'F F'
          The selected frame is number N in the trace frame buffer; F is
          a hexadecimal number.  If F is '-1', then there was no frame
          matching the criteria in the request packet.

     'T T'
          The selected trace frame records a hit of tracepoint number T;
          T is a hexadecimal number.

'QTFrame:pc:ADDR'
     Like 'QTFrame:N', but select the first tracepoint frame after the
     currently selected frame whose PC is ADDR; ADDR is a hexadecimal
     number.

'QTFrame:tdp:T'
     Like 'QTFrame:N', but select the first tracepoint frame after the
     currently selected frame that is a hit of tracepoint T; T is a
     hexadecimal number.

'QTFrame:range:START:END'
     Like 'QTFrame:N', but select the first tracepoint frame after the
     currently selected frame whose PC is between START (inclusive) and
     END (inclusive); START and END are hexadecimal numbers.

'QTFrame:outside:START:END'
     Like 'QTFrame:range:START:END', but select the first frame
     _outside_ the given range of addresses (exclusive).

'qTMinFTPILen'
     This packet requests the minimum length of instruction at which a
     fast tracepoint (*note Set Tracepoints::) may be placed.  For
     instance, on the 32-bit x86 architecture, it is possible to use a
     4-byte jump, but it depends on the target system being able to
     create trampolines in the first 64K of memory, which might or might
     not be possible for that system.  So the reply to this packet will
     be 4 if it is able to arrange for that.

     Replies:

     '0'
          The minimum instruction length is currently unknown.
     'LENGTH'
          The minimum instruction length is LENGTH, where LENGTH is a
          hexadecimal number greater or equal to 1.  A reply of 1 means
          that a fast tracepoint may be placed on any instruction
          regardless of size.
     'E'
          An error has occurred.

'QTStart'
     Begin the tracepoint experiment.  Begin collecting data from
     tracepoint hits in the trace frame buffer.  This packet supports
     the 'qRelocInsn' reply (*note Relocate instruction reply packet:
     Tracepoint Packets.).

'QTStop'
     End the tracepoint experiment.  Stop collecting trace frames.

'QTEnable:N:ADDR'
     Enable tracepoint N at address ADDR in a started tracepoint
     experiment.  If the tracepoint was previously disabled, then
     collection of data from it will resume.

'QTDisable:N:ADDR'
     Disable tracepoint N at address ADDR in a started tracepoint
     experiment.  No more data will be collected from the tracepoint
     unless 'QTEnable:N:ADDR' is subsequently issued.

'QTinit'
     Clear the table of tracepoints, and empty the trace frame buffer.

'QTro:START1,END1:START2,END2:...'
     Establish the given ranges of memory as "transparent".  The stub
     will answer requests for these ranges from memory's current
     contents, if they were not collected as part of the tracepoint hit.

     GDB uses this to mark read-only regions of memory, like those
     containing program code.  Since these areas never change, they
     should still have the same contents they did when the tracepoint
     was hit, so there's no reason for the stub to refuse to provide
     their contents.

'QTDisconnected:VALUE'
     Set the choice to what to do with the tracing run when GDB
     disconnects from the target.  A VALUE of 1 directs the target to
     continue the tracing run, while 0 tells the target to stop tracing
     if GDB is no longer in the picture.

'qTStatus'
     Ask the stub if there is a trace experiment running right now.

     The reply has the form:

     'TRUNNING[;FIELD]...'
          RUNNING is a single digit '1' if the trace is presently
          running, or '0' if not.  It is followed by semicolon-separated
          optional fields that an agent may use to report additional
          status.

     If the trace is not running, the agent may report any of several
     explanations as one of the optional fields:

     'tnotrun:0'
          No trace has been run yet.

     'tstop[:TEXT]:0'
          The trace was stopped by a user-originated stop command.  The
          optional TEXT field is a user-supplied string supplied as part
          of the stop command (for instance, an explanation of why the
          trace was stopped manually).  It is hex-encoded.

     'tfull:0'
          The trace stopped because the trace buffer filled up.

     'tdisconnected:0'
          The trace stopped because GDB disconnected from the target.

     'tpasscount:TPNUM'
          The trace stopped because tracepoint TPNUM exceeded its pass
          count.

     'terror:TEXT:TPNUM'
          The trace stopped because tracepoint TPNUM had an error.  The
          string TEXT is available to describe the nature of the error
          (for instance, a divide by zero in the condition expression);
          it is hex encoded.

     'tunknown:0'
          The trace stopped for some other reason.

     Additional optional fields supply statistical and other
     information.  Although not required, they are extremely useful for
     users monitoring the progress of a trace run.  If a trace has
     stopped, and these numbers are reported, they must reflect the
     state of the just-stopped trace.

     'tframes:N'
          The number of trace frames in the buffer.

     'tcreated:N'
          The total number of trace frames created during the run.  This
          may be larger than the trace frame count, if the buffer is
          circular.

     'tsize:N'
          The total size of the trace buffer, in bytes.

     'tfree:N'
          The number of bytes still unused in the buffer.

     'circular:N'
          The value of the circular trace buffer flag.  '1' means that
          the trace buffer is circular and old trace frames will be
          discarded if necessary to make room, '0' means that the trace
          buffer is linear and may fill up.

     'disconn:N'
          The value of the disconnected tracing flag.  '1' means that
          tracing will continue after GDB disconnects, '0' means that
          the trace run will stop.

'qTP:TP:ADDR'
     Ask the stub for the current state of tracepoint number TP at
     address ADDR.

     Replies:
     'VHITS:USAGE'
          The tracepoint has been hit HITS times so far during the trace
          run, and accounts for USAGE in the trace buffer.  Note that
          'while-stepping' steps are not counted as separate hits, but
          the steps' space consumption is added into the usage number.

'qTV:VAR'
     Ask the stub for the value of the trace state variable number VAR.

     Replies:
     'VVALUE'
          The value of the variable is VALUE.  This will be the current
          value of the variable if the user is examining a running
          target, or a saved value if the variable was collected in the
          trace frame that the user is looking at.  Note that multiple
          requests may result in different reply values, such as when
          requesting values while the program is running.

     'U'
          The value of the variable is unknown.  This would occur, for
          example, if the user is examining a trace frame in which the
          requested variable was not collected.

'qTfP'
'qTsP'
     These packets request data about tracepoints that are being used by
     the target.  GDB sends 'qTfP' to get the first piece of data, and
     multiple 'qTsP' to get additional pieces.  Replies to these packets
     generally take the form of the 'QTDP' packets that define
     tracepoints.  (FIXME add detailed syntax)

'qTfV'
'qTsV'
     These packets request data about trace state variables that are on
     the target.  GDB sends 'qTfV' to get the first vari of data, and
     multiple 'qTsV' to get additional variables.  Replies to these
     packets follow the syntax of the 'QTDV' packets that define trace
     state variables.

'qTfSTM'
'qTsSTM'
     These packets request data about static tracepoint markers that
     exist in the target program.  GDB sends 'qTfSTM' to get the first
     piece of data, and multiple 'qTsSTM' to get additional pieces.
     Replies to these packets take the following form:

     Reply:
     'm ADDRESS:ID:EXTRA'
          A single marker
     'm ADDRESS:ID:EXTRA,ADDRESS:ID:EXTRA...'
          a comma-separated list of markers
     'l'
          (lower case letter 'L') denotes end of list.

     The ADDRESS is encoded in hex; ID and EXTRA are strings encoded in
     hex.

     In response to each query, the target will reply with a list of one
     or more markers, separated by commas.  GDB will respond to each
     reply with a request for more markers (using the 'qs' form of the
     query), until the target responds with 'l' (lower-case ell, for
     "last").

'qTSTMat:ADDRESS'
     This packet requests data about static tracepoint markers in the
     target program at ADDRESS.  Replies to this packet follow the
     syntax of the 'qTfSTM' and 'qTsSTM' packets that list static
     tracepoint markers.

'QTSave:FILENAME'
     This packet directs the target to save trace data to the file name
     FILENAME in the target's filesystem.  The FILENAME is encoded as a
     hex string; the interpretation of the file name (relative vs
     absolute, wild cards, etc) is up to the target.

'qTBuffer:OFFSET,LEN'
     Return up to LEN bytes of the current contents of trace buffer,
     starting at OFFSET.  The trace buffer is treated as if it were a
     contiguous collection of traceframes, as per the trace file format.
     The reply consists as many hex-encoded bytes as the target can
     deliver in a packet; it is not an error to return fewer than were
     asked for.  A reply consisting of just 'l' indicates that no bytes
     are available.

'QTBuffer:circular:VALUE'
     This packet directs the target to use a circular trace buffer if
     VALUE is 1, or a linear buffer if the value is 0.

'QTBuffer:size:SIZE'
     This packet directs the target to make the trace buffer be of size
     SIZE if possible.  A value of '-1' tells the target to use whatever
     size it prefers.

'QTNotes:[TYPE:TEXT][;TYPE:TEXT]...'
     This packet adds optional textual notes to the trace run.
     Allowable types include 'user', 'notes', and 'tstop', the TEXT
     fields are arbitrary strings, hex-encoded.

E.7.1 Relocate instruction reply packet
---------------------------------------

When installing fast tracepoints in memory, the target may need to
relocate the instruction currently at the tracepoint address to a
different address in memory.  For most instructions, a simple copy is
enough, but, for example, call instructions that implicitly push the
return address on the stack, and relative branches or other PC-relative
instructions require offset adjustment, so that the effect of executing
the instruction at a different address is the same as if it had executed
in the original location.

   In response to several of the tracepoint packets, the target may also
respond with a number of intermediate 'qRelocInsn' request packets
before the final result packet, to have GDB handle this relocation
operation.  If a packet supports this mechanism, its documentation will
explicitly say so.  See for example the above descriptions for the
'QTStart' and 'QTDP' packets.  The format of the request is:

'qRelocInsn:FROM;TO'

     This requests GDB to copy instruction at address FROM to address
     TO, possibly adjusted so that executing the instruction at TO has
     the same effect as executing it at FROM.  GDB writes the adjusted
     instruction to target memory starting at TO.

   Replies:
'qRelocInsn:ADJUSTED_SIZE'
     Informs the stub the relocation is complete.  The ADJUSTED_SIZE is
     the length in bytes of resulting relocated instruction sequence.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Host I/O Packets,  Next: Interrupts,  Prev: Tracepoint Packets,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.8 Host I/O Packets
====================

The "Host I/O" packets allow GDB to perform I/O operations on the far
side of a remote link.  For example, Host I/O is used to upload and
download files to a remote target with its own filesystem.  Host I/O
uses the same constant values and data structure layout as the
target-initiated File-I/O protocol.  However, the Host I/O packets are
structured differently.  The target-initiated protocol relies on target
memory to store parameters and buffers.  Host I/O requests are initiated
by GDB, and the target's memory is not involved.  *Note File-I/O Remote
Protocol Extension::, for more details on the target-initiated protocol.

   The Host I/O request packets all encode a single operation along with
its arguments.  They have this format:

'vFile:OPERATION: PARAMETER...'
     OPERATION is the name of the particular request; the target should
     compare the entire packet name up to the second colon when checking
     for a supported operation.  The format of PARAMETER depends on the
     operation.  Numbers are always passed in hexadecimal.  Negative
     numbers have an explicit minus sign (i.e. two's complement is not
     used).  Strings (e.g. filenames) are encoded as a series of
     hexadecimal bytes.  The last argument to a system call may be a
     buffer of escaped binary data (*note Binary Data::).

   The valid responses to Host I/O packets are:

'F RESULT [, ERRNO] [; ATTACHMENT]'
     RESULT is the integer value returned by this operation, usually
     non-negative for success and -1 for errors.  If an error has
     occurred, ERRNO will be included in the result specifying a value
     defined by the File-I/O protocol (*note Errno Values::).  For
     operations which return data, ATTACHMENT supplies the data as a
     binary buffer.  Binary buffers in response packets are escaped in
     the normal way (*note Binary Data::).  See the individual packet
     documentation for the interpretation of RESULT and ATTACHMENT.

''
     An empty response indicates that this operation is not recognized.

   These are the supported Host I/O operations:

'vFile:open: FILENAME, FLAGS, MODE'
     Open a file at FILENAME and return a file descriptor for it, or
     return -1 if an error occurs.  The FILENAME is a string, FLAGS is
     an integer indicating a mask of open flags (*note Open Flags::),
     and MODE is an integer indicating a mask of mode bits to use if the
     file is created (*note mode_t Values::).  *Note open::, for details
     of the open flags and mode values.

'vFile:close: FD'
     Close the open file corresponding to FD and return 0, or -1 if an
     error occurs.

'vFile:pread: FD, COUNT, OFFSET'
     Read data from the open file corresponding to FD.  Up to COUNT
     bytes will be read from the file, starting at OFFSET relative to
     the start of the file.  The target may read fewer bytes; common
     reasons include packet size limits and an end-of-file condition.
     The number of bytes read is returned.  Zero should only be returned
     for a successful read at the end of the file, or if COUNT was zero.

     The data read should be returned as a binary attachment on success.
     If zero bytes were read, the response should include an empty
     binary attachment (i.e. a trailing semicolon).  The return value is
     the number of target bytes read; the binary attachment may be
     longer if some characters were escaped.

'vFile:pwrite: FD, OFFSET, DATA'
     Write DATA (a binary buffer) to the open file corresponding to FD.
     Start the write at OFFSET from the start of the file.  Unlike many
     'write' system calls, there is no separate COUNT argument; the
     length of DATA in the packet is used.  'vFile:pwrite' returns the
     number of bytes written, which may be shorter than the length of
     DATA, or -1 if an error occurred.

'vFile:fstat: FD'
     Get information about the open file corresponding to FD.  On
     success the information is returned as a binary attachment and the
     return value is the size of this attachment in bytes.  If an error
     occurs the return value is -1.  The format of the returned binary
     attachment is as described in *note struct stat::.

'vFile:stat: FILENAME'
     Get information about the file FILENAME on the target as if from a
     'stat' call.  On success the information is returned as a binary
     attachment and the return value is the size of this attachment in
     bytes.  If an error occurs the return value is -1.  The format of
     the returned binary attachment is as described in *note struct
     stat::.

     If FILENAME is a symbolic link, then the information returned is
     about the file the link refers to, this is inline with the 'stat'
     library call.

'vFile:lstat: FILENAME'
     Get information about the file FILENAME on the target as if from an
     'lstat' call.  On success the information is returned as a binary
     attachment and the return value is the size of this attachment in
     bytes.  If an error occurs the return value is -1.  The format of
     the returned binary attachment is as described in *note struct
     stat::.

     This packet is identical to 'vFile:stat', except if FILENAME is a
     symbolic link, then this packet returns information about the link
     itself, not the file that the link refers to, this is inline with
     the 'lstat' library call.

'vFile:unlink: FILENAME'
     Delete the file at FILENAME on the target.  Return 0, or -1 if an
     error occurs.  The FILENAME is a string.

'vFile:readlink: FILENAME'
     Read value of symbolic link FILENAME on the target.  Return the
     number of bytes read, or -1 if an error occurs.

     The data read should be returned as a binary attachment on success.
     If zero bytes were read, the response should include an empty
     binary attachment (i.e. a trailing semicolon).  The return value is
     the number of target bytes read; the binary attachment may be
     longer if some characters were escaped.

'vFile:setfs: PID'
     Select the filesystem on which 'vFile' operations with FILENAME
     arguments will operate.  This is required for GDB to be able to
     access files on remote targets where the remote stub does not share
     a common filesystem with the inferior(s).

     If PID is nonzero, select the filesystem as seen by process PID.
     If PID is zero, select the filesystem as seen by the remote stub.
     Return 0 on success, or -1 if an error occurs.  If 'vFile:setfs:'
     indicates success, the selected filesystem remains selected until
     the next successful 'vFile:setfs:' operation.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Interrupts,  Next: Notification Packets,  Prev: Host I/O Packets,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.9 Interrupts
==============

In all-stop mode, when a program on the remote target is running, GDB
may attempt to interrupt it by sending a 'Ctrl-C', 'BREAK' or a 'BREAK'
followed by 'g', control of which is specified via GDB's
'interrupt-sequence'.

   The precise meaning of 'BREAK' is defined by the transport mechanism
and may, in fact, be undefined.  GDB does not currently define a 'BREAK'
mechanism for any of the network interfaces except for TCP, in which
case GDB sends the 'telnet' BREAK sequence.

   'Ctrl-C', on the other hand, is defined and implemented for all
transport mechanisms.  It is represented by sending the single byte
'0x03' without any of the usual packet overhead described in the
Overview section (*note Overview::).  When a '0x03' byte is transmitted
as part of a packet, it is considered to be packet data and does _not_
represent an interrupt.  E.g., an 'X' packet (*note X packet::), used
for binary downloads, may include an unescaped '0x03' as part of its
packet.

   'BREAK' followed by 'g' is also known as Magic SysRq g.  When Linux
kernel receives this sequence from serial port, it stops execution and
connects to gdb.

   In non-stop mode, because packet resumptions are asynchronous (*note
vCont packet::), GDB is always free to send a remote command to the
remote stub, even when the target is running.  For that reason, GDB
instead sends a regular packet (*note vCtrlC packet::) with the usual
packet framing instead of the single byte '0x03'.

   Stubs are not required to recognize these interrupt mechanisms and
the precise meaning associated with receipt of the interrupt is
implementation defined.  If the target supports debugging of multiple
threads and/or processes, it should attempt to interrupt all
currently-executing threads and processes.  If the stub is successful at
interrupting the running program, it should send one of the stop reply
packets (*note Stop Reply Packets::) to GDB as a result of successfully
stopping the program in all-stop mode, and a stop reply for each stopped
thread in non-stop mode.  Interrupts received while the program is
stopped are queued and the program will be interrupted when it is
resumed next time.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Notification Packets,  Next: Remote Non-Stop,  Prev: Interrupts,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.10 Notification Packets
=========================

The GDB remote serial protocol includes "notifications", packets that
require no acknowledgment.  Both the GDB and the stub may send
notifications (although the only notifications defined at present are
sent by the stub).  Notifications carry information without incurring
the round-trip latency of an acknowledgment, and so are useful for
low-impact communications where occasional packet loss is not a problem.

   A notification packet has the form '% DATA # CHECKSUM', where DATA is
the content of the notification, and CHECKSUM is a checksum of DATA,
computed and formatted as for ordinary GDB packets.  A notification's
DATA never contains '$', '%' or '#' characters.  Upon receiving a
notification, the recipient sends no '+' or '-' to acknowledge the
notification's receipt or to report its corruption.

   Every notification's DATA begins with a name, which contains no colon
characters, followed by a colon character.

   Recipients should silently ignore corrupted notifications and
notifications they do not understand.  Recipients should restart timeout
periods on receipt of a well-formed notification, whether or not they
understand it.

   Senders should only send the notifications described here when this
protocol description specifies that they are permitted.  In the future,
we may extend the protocol to permit existing notifications in new
contexts; this rule helps older senders avoid confusing newer
recipients.

   (Older versions of GDB ignore bytes received until they see the '$'
byte that begins an ordinary packet, so new stubs may transmit
notifications without fear of confusing older clients.  There are no
notifications defined for GDB to send at the moment, but we assume that
most older stubs would ignore them, as well.)

   Each notification is comprised of three parts:
'NAME:EVENT'
     The notification packet is sent by the side that initiates the
     exchange (currently, only the stub does that), with EVENT carrying
     the specific information about the notification, and NAME
     specifying the name of the notification.
'ACK'
     The acknowledge sent by the other side, usually GDB, to acknowledge
     the exchange and request the event.

   The purpose of an asynchronous notification mechanism is to report to
GDB that something interesting happened in the remote stub.

   The remote stub may send notification NAME:EVENT at any time, but GDB
acknowledges the notification when appropriate.  The notification event
is pending before GDB acknowledges.  Only one notification at a time may
be pending; if additional events occur before GDB has acknowledged the
previous notification, they must be queued by the stub for later
synchronous transmission in response to ACK packets from GDB.  Because
the notification mechanism is unreliable, the stub is permitted to
resend a notification if it believes GDB may not have received it.

   Specifically, notifications may appear when GDB is not otherwise
reading input from the stub, or when GDB is expecting to read a normal
synchronous response or a '+'/'-' acknowledgment to a packet it has
sent.  Notification packets are distinct from any other communication
from the stub so there is no ambiguity.

   After receiving a notification, GDB shall acknowledge it by sending a
ACK packet as a regular, synchronous request to the stub.  Such
acknowledgment is not required to happen immediately, as GDB is
permitted to send other, unrelated packets to the stub first, which the
stub should process normally.

   Upon receiving a ACK packet, if the stub has other queued events to
report to GDB, it shall respond by sending a normal EVENT.  GDB shall
then send another ACK packet to solicit further responses; again, it is
permitted to send other, unrelated packets as well which the stub should
process normally.

   If the stub receives a ACK packet and there are no additional EVENT
to report, the stub shall return an 'OK' response.  At this point, GDB
has finished processing a notification and the stub has completed
sending any queued events.  GDB won't accept any new notifications until
the final 'OK' is received .  If further notification events occur, the
stub shall send a new notification, GDB shall accept the notification,
and the process shall be repeated.

   The process of asynchronous notification can be illustrated by the
following example:
     <- %Stop:T0505:98e7ffbf;04:4ce6ffbf;08:b1b6e54c;thread:p7526.7526;core:0;
     ...
     -> vStopped
     <- T0505:68f37db7;04:40f37db7;08:63850408;thread:p7526.7528;core:0;
     -> vStopped
     <- T0505:68e3fdb6;04:40e3fdb6;08:63850408;thread:p7526.7529;core:0;
     -> vStopped
     <- OK

   The following notifications are defined:

NotificationAck     Event                       Description
                                                
Stop      vStopped  REPLY.  The REPLY has the   Report an asynchronous
                    form of a stop reply, as    stop event in non-stop
                    described in                mode.
                    *note Stop Reply Packets::. 
                    Refer to
                    *note Remote Non-Stop::,
                    for information on how
                    these notifications are
                    acknowledged by GDB.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Remote Non-Stop,  Next: Packet Acknowledgment,  Prev: Notification Packets,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.11 Remote Protocol Support for Non-Stop Mode
==============================================

GDB's remote protocol supports non-stop debugging of multi-threaded
programs, as described in *note Non-Stop Mode::.  If the stub supports
non-stop mode, it should report that to GDB by including 'QNonStop+' in
its 'qSupported' response (*note qSupported::).

   GDB typically sends a 'QNonStop' packet only when establishing a new
connection with the stub.  Entering non-stop mode does not alter the
state of any currently-running threads, but targets must stop all
threads in any already-attached processes when entering all-stop mode.
GDB uses the '?' packet as necessary to probe the target state after a
mode change.

   In non-stop mode, when an attached process encounters an event that
would otherwise be reported with a stop reply, it uses the asynchronous
notification mechanism (*note Notification Packets::) to inform GDB.  In
contrast to all-stop mode, where all threads in all processes are
stopped when a stop reply is sent, in non-stop mode only the thread
reporting the stop event is stopped.  That is, when reporting a 'S' or
'T' response to indicate completion of a step operation, hitting a
breakpoint, or a fault, only the affected thread is stopped; any other
still-running threads continue to run.  When reporting a 'W' or 'X'
response, all running threads belonging to other attached processes
continue to run.

   In non-stop mode, the target shall respond to the '?' packet as
follows.  First, any incomplete stop reply notification/'vStopped'
sequence in progress is abandoned.  The target must begin a new sequence
reporting stop events for all stopped threads, whether or not it has
previously reported those events to GDB.  The first stop reply is sent
as a synchronous reply to the '?' packet, and subsequent stop replies
are sent as responses to 'vStopped' packets using the mechanism
described above.  The target must not send asynchronous stop reply
notifications until the sequence is complete.  If all threads are
running when the target receives the '?' packet, or if the target is not
attached to any process, it shall respond 'OK'.

   If the stub supports non-stop mode, it should also support the
'swbreak' stop reason if software breakpoints are supported, and the
'hwbreak' stop reason if hardware breakpoints are supported (*note
swbreak stop reason::).  This is because given the asynchronous nature
of non-stop mode, between the time a thread hits a breakpoint and the
time the event is finally processed by GDB, the breakpoint may have
already been removed from the target.  Due to this, GDB needs to be able
to tell whether a trap stop was caused by a delayed breakpoint event,
which should be ignored, as opposed to a random trap signal, which
should be reported to the user.  Note the 'swbreak' feature implies that
the target is responsible for adjusting the PC when a software
breakpoint triggers, if necessary, such as on the x86 architecture.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Packet Acknowledgment,  Next: Examples,  Prev: Remote Non-Stop,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.12 Packet Acknowledgment
==========================

By default, when either the host or the target machine receives a
packet, the first response expected is an acknowledgment: either '+' (to
indicate the package was received correctly) or '-' (to request
retransmission).  This mechanism allows the GDB remote protocol to
operate over unreliable transport mechanisms, such as a serial line.

   In cases where the transport mechanism is itself reliable (such as a
pipe or TCP connection), the '+'/'-' acknowledgments are redundant.  It
may be desirable to disable them in that case to reduce communication
overhead, or for other reasons.  This can be accomplished by means of
the 'QStartNoAckMode' packet; *note QStartNoAckMode::.

   When in no-acknowledgment mode, neither the stub nor GDB shall send
or expect '+'/'-' protocol acknowledgments.  The packet and response
format still includes the normal checksum, as described in *note
Overview::, but the checksum may be ignored by the receiver.

   If the stub supports 'QStartNoAckMode' and prefers to operate in
no-acknowledgment mode, it should report that to GDB by including
'QStartNoAckMode+' in its response to 'qSupported'; *note qSupported::.
If GDB also supports 'QStartNoAckMode' and it has not been disabled via
the 'set remote noack-packet off' command (*note Remote
Configuration::), GDB may then send a 'QStartNoAckMode' packet to the
stub.  Only then may the stub actually turn off packet acknowledgments.
GDB sends a final '+' acknowledgment of the stub's 'OK' response, which
can be safely ignored by the stub.

   Note that 'set remote noack-packet' command only affects negotiation
between GDB and the stub when subsequent connections are made; it does
not affect the protocol acknowledgment state for any current connection.
Since '+'/'-' acknowledgments are enabled by default when a new
connection is established, there is also no protocol request to
re-enable the acknowledgments for the current connection, once disabled.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Examples,  Next: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension,  Prev: Packet Acknowledgment,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.13 Examples
=============

Example sequence of a target being re-started.  Notice how the restart
does not get any direct output:

     -> R00
     <- +
     _target restarts_
     -> ?
     <- +
     <- T001:1234123412341234
     -> +

   Example sequence of a target being stepped by a single instruction:

     -> G1445...
     <- +
     -> s
     <- +
     _time passes_
     <- T001:1234123412341234
     -> +
     -> g
     <- +
     <- 1455...
     -> +


File: gdb.info,  Node: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension,  Next: Library List Format,  Prev: Examples,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.14 File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension
=======================================

* Menu:

* File-I/O Overview::
* Protocol Basics::
* The F Request Packet::
* The F Reply Packet::
* The Ctrl-C Message::
* Console I/O::
* List of Supported Calls::
* Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes::
* Constants::
* File-I/O Examples::


File: gdb.info,  Node: File-I/O Overview,  Next: Protocol Basics,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.1 File-I/O Overview
------------------------

The "File I/O remote protocol extension" (short: File-I/O) allows the
target to use the host's file system and console I/O to perform various
system calls.  System calls on the target system are translated into a
remote protocol packet to the host system, which then performs the
needed actions and returns a response packet to the target system.  This
simulates file system operations even on targets that lack file systems.

   The protocol is defined to be independent of both the host and target
systems.  It uses its own internal representation of datatypes and
values.  Both GDB and the target's GDB stub are responsible for
translating the system-dependent value representations into the internal
protocol representations when data is transmitted.

   The communication is synchronous.  A system call is possible only
when GDB is waiting for a response from the 'C', 'c', 'S' or 's'
packets.  While GDB handles the request for a system call, the target is
stopped to allow deterministic access to the target's memory.  Therefore
File-I/O is not interruptible by target signals.  On the other hand, it
is possible to interrupt File-I/O by a user interrupt ('Ctrl-C') within
GDB.

   The target's request to perform a host system call does not finish
the latest 'C', 'c', 'S' or 's' action.  That means, after finishing the
system call, the target returns to continuing the previous activity
(continue, step).  No additional continue or step request from GDB is
required.

     (gdb) continue
       <- target requests 'system call X'
       target is stopped, GDB executes system call
       -> GDB returns result
       ... target continues, GDB returns to wait for the target
       <- target hits breakpoint and sends a Txx packet

   The protocol only supports I/O on the console and to regular files on
the host file system.  Character or block special devices, pipes, named
pipes, sockets or any other communication method on the host system are
not supported by this protocol.

   File I/O is not supported in non-stop mode.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Protocol Basics,  Next: The F Request Packet,  Prev: File-I/O Overview,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.2 Protocol Basics
----------------------

The File-I/O protocol uses the 'F' packet as the request as well as
reply packet.  Since a File-I/O system call can only occur when GDB is
waiting for a response from the continuing or stepping target, the
File-I/O request is a reply that GDB has to expect as a result of a
previous 'C', 'c', 'S' or 's' packet.  This 'F' packet contains all
information needed to allow GDB to call the appropriate host system
call:

   * A unique identifier for the requested system call.

   * All parameters to the system call.  Pointers are given as addresses
     in the target memory address space.  Pointers to strings are given
     as pointer/length pair.  Numerical values are given as they are.
     Numerical control flags are given in a protocol-specific
     representation.

   At this point, GDB has to perform the following actions.

   * If the parameters include pointer values to data needed as input to
     a system call, GDB requests this data from the target with a
     standard 'm' packet request.  This additional communication has to
     be expected by the target implementation and is handled as any
     other 'm' packet.

   * GDB translates all value from protocol representation to host
     representation as needed.  Datatypes are coerced into the host
     types.

   * GDB calls the system call.

   * It then coerces datatypes back to protocol representation.

   * If the system call is expected to return data in buffer space
     specified by pointer parameters to the call, the data is
     transmitted to the target using a 'M' or 'X' packet.  This packet
     has to be expected by the target implementation and is handled as
     any other 'M' or 'X' packet.

   Eventually GDB replies with another 'F' packet which contains all
necessary information for the target to continue.  This at least
contains

   * Return value.

   * 'errno', if has been changed by the system call.

   * "Ctrl-C" flag.

   After having done the needed type and value coercion, the target
continues the latest continue or step action.


File: gdb.info,  Node: The F Request Packet,  Next: The F Reply Packet,  Prev: Protocol Basics,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.3 The 'F' Request Packet
-----------------------------

The 'F' request packet has the following format:

'FCALL-ID,PARAMETER...'

     CALL-ID is the identifier to indicate the host system call to be
     called.  This is just the name of the function.

     PARAMETER... are the parameters to the system call.  Parameters are
     hexadecimal integer values, either the actual values in case of
     scalar datatypes, pointers to target buffer space in case of
     compound datatypes and unspecified memory areas, or pointer/length
     pairs in case of string parameters.  These are appended to the
     CALL-ID as a comma-delimited list.  All values are transmitted in
     ASCII string representation, pointer/length pairs separated by a
     slash.


File: gdb.info,  Node: The F Reply Packet,  Next: The Ctrl-C Message,  Prev: The F Request Packet,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.4 The 'F' Reply Packet
---------------------------

The 'F' reply packet has the following format:

'FRETCODE,ERRNO,CTRL-C FLAG;CALL-SPECIFIC ATTACHMENT'

     RETCODE is the return code of the system call as hexadecimal value.

     ERRNO is the 'errno' set by the call, in protocol-specific
     representation.  This parameter can be omitted if the call was
     successful.

     CTRL-C FLAG is only sent if the user requested a break.  In this
     case, ERRNO must be sent as well, even if the call was successful.
     The CTRL-C FLAG itself consists of the character 'C':

          F0,0,C

     or, if the call was interrupted before the host call has been
     performed:

          F-1,4,C

     assuming 4 is the protocol-specific representation of 'EINTR'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: The Ctrl-C Message,  Next: Console I/O,  Prev: The F Reply Packet,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.5 The 'Ctrl-C' Message
---------------------------

If the 'Ctrl-C' flag is set in the GDB reply packet (*note The F Reply
Packet::), the target should behave as if it had gotten a break message.
The meaning for the target is "system call interrupted by 'SIGINT'".
Consequently, the target should actually stop (as with a break message)
and return to GDB with a 'T02' packet.

   It's important for the target to know in which state the system call
was interrupted.  There are two possible cases:

   * The system call hasn't been performed on the host yet.

   * The system call on the host has been finished.

   These two states can be distinguished by the target by the value of
the returned 'errno'.  If it's the protocol representation of 'EINTR',
the system call hasn't been performed.  This is equivalent to the
'EINTR' handling on POSIX systems.  In any other case, the target may
presume that the system call has been finished -- successfully or not --
and should behave as if the break message arrived right after the system
call.

   GDB must behave reliably.  If the system call has not been called
yet, GDB may send the 'F' reply immediately, setting 'EINTR' as 'errno'
in the packet.  If the system call on the host has been finished before
the user requests a break, the full action must be finished by GDB.
This requires sending 'M' or 'X' packets as necessary.  The 'F' packet
may only be sent when either nothing has happened or the full action has
been completed.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Console I/O,  Next: List of Supported Calls,  Prev: The Ctrl-C Message,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.6 Console I/O
------------------

By default and if not explicitly closed by the target system, the file
descriptors 0, 1 and 2 are connected to the GDB console.  Output on the
GDB console is handled as any other file output operation ('write(1,
...)' or 'write(2, ...)').  Console input is handled by GDB so that
after the target read request from file descriptor 0 all following
typing is buffered until either one of the following conditions is met:

   * The user types 'Ctrl-c'.  The behavior is as explained above, and
     the 'read' system call is treated as finished.

   * The user presses <RET>.  This is treated as end of input with a
     trailing newline.

   * The user types 'Ctrl-d'.  This is treated as end of input.  No
     trailing character (neither newline nor 'Ctrl-D') is appended to
     the input.

   If the user has typed more characters than fit in the buffer given to
the 'read' call, the trailing characters are buffered in GDB until
either another 'read(0, ...)' is requested by the target, or debugging
is stopped at the user's request.


File: gdb.info,  Node: List of Supported Calls,  Next: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes,  Prev: Console I/O,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.7 List of Supported Calls
------------------------------

* Menu:

* open::
* close::
* read::
* write::
* lseek::
* rename::
* unlink::
* stat/fstat::
* gettimeofday::
* isatty::
* system::


File: gdb.info,  Node: open,  Next: close,  Up: List of Supported Calls

open
....

Synopsis:
          int open(const char *pathname, int flags);
          int open(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode);

Request:
     'Fopen,PATHPTR/LEN,FLAGS,MODE'

     FLAGS is the bitwise 'OR' of the following values:

     'O_CREAT'
          If the file does not exist it will be created.  The host rules
          apply as far as file ownership and time stamps are concerned.

     'O_EXCL'
          When used with 'O_CREAT', if the file already exists it is an
          error and open() fails.

     'O_TRUNC'
          If the file already exists and the open mode allows writing
          ('O_RDWR' or 'O_WRONLY' is given) it will be truncated to zero
          length.

     'O_APPEND'
          The file is opened in append mode.

     'O_RDONLY'
          The file is opened for reading only.

     'O_WRONLY'
          The file is opened for writing only.

     'O_RDWR'
          The file is opened for reading and writing.

     Other bits are silently ignored.

     MODE is the bitwise 'OR' of the following values:

     'S_IRUSR'
          User has read permission.

     'S_IWUSR'
          User has write permission.

     'S_IRGRP'
          Group has read permission.

     'S_IWGRP'
          Group has write permission.

     'S_IROTH'
          Others have read permission.

     'S_IWOTH'
          Others have write permission.

     Other bits are silently ignored.

Return value:
     'open' returns the new file descriptor or -1 if an error occurred.

Errors:

     'EEXIST'
          PATHNAME already exists and 'O_CREAT' and 'O_EXCL' were used.

     'EISDIR'
          PATHNAME refers to a directory.

     'EACCES'
          The requested access is not allowed.

     'ENAMETOOLONG'
          PATHNAME was too long.

     'ENOENT'
          A directory component in PATHNAME does not exist.

     'ENODEV'
          PATHNAME refers to a device, pipe, named pipe or socket.

     'EROFS'
          PATHNAME refers to a file on a read-only filesystem and write
          access was requested.

     'EFAULT'
          PATHNAME is an invalid pointer value.

     'ENOSPC'
          No space on device to create the file.

     'EMFILE'
          The process already has the maximum number of files open.

     'ENFILE'
          The limit on the total number of files open on the system has
          been reached.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: close,  Next: read,  Prev: open,  Up: List of Supported Calls

close
.....

Synopsis:
          int close(int fd);

Request:
     'Fclose,FD'

Return value:
     'close' returns zero on success, or -1 if an error occurred.

Errors:

     'EBADF'
          FD isn't a valid open file descriptor.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: read,  Next: write,  Prev: close,  Up: List of Supported Calls

read
....

Synopsis:
          int read(int fd, void *buf, unsigned int count);

Request:
     'Fread,FD,BUFPTR,COUNT'

Return value:
     On success, the number of bytes read is returned.  Zero indicates
     end of file.  If count is zero, read returns zero as well.  On
     error, -1 is returned.

Errors:

     'EBADF'
          FD is not a valid file descriptor or is not open for reading.

     'EFAULT'
          BUFPTR is an invalid pointer value.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: write,  Next: lseek,  Prev: read,  Up: List of Supported Calls

write
.....

Synopsis:
          int write(int fd, const void *buf, unsigned int count);

Request:
     'Fwrite,FD,BUFPTR,COUNT'

Return value:
     On success, the number of bytes written are returned.  Zero
     indicates nothing was written.  On error, -1 is returned.

Errors:

     'EBADF'
          FD is not a valid file descriptor or is not open for writing.

     'EFAULT'
          BUFPTR is an invalid pointer value.

     'EFBIG'
          An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the
          host-specific maximum file size allowed.

     'ENOSPC'
          No space on device to write the data.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: lseek,  Next: rename,  Prev: write,  Up: List of Supported Calls

lseek
.....

Synopsis:
          long lseek (int fd, long offset, int flag);

Request:
     'Flseek,FD,OFFSET,FLAG'

     FLAG is one of:

     'SEEK_SET'
          The offset is set to OFFSET bytes.

     'SEEK_CUR'
          The offset is set to its current location plus OFFSET bytes.

     'SEEK_END'
          The offset is set to the size of the file plus OFFSET bytes.

Return value:
     On success, the resulting unsigned offset in bytes from the
     beginning of the file is returned.  Otherwise, a value of -1 is
     returned.

Errors:

     'EBADF'
          FD is not a valid open file descriptor.

     'ESPIPE'
          FD is associated with the GDB console.

     'EINVAL'
          FLAG is not a proper value.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: rename,  Next: unlink,  Prev: lseek,  Up: List of Supported Calls

rename
......

Synopsis:
          int rename(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);

Request:
     'Frename,OLDPATHPTR/LEN,NEWPATHPTR/LEN'

Return value:
     On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned.

Errors:

     'EISDIR'
          NEWPATH is an existing directory, but OLDPATH is not a
          directory.

     'EEXIST'
          NEWPATH is a non-empty directory.

     'EBUSY'
          OLDPATH or NEWPATH is a directory that is in use by some
          process.

     'EINVAL'
          An attempt was made to make a directory a subdirectory of
          itself.

     'ENOTDIR'
          A component used as a directory in OLDPATH or new path is not
          a directory.  Or OLDPATH is a directory and NEWPATH exists but
          is not a directory.

     'EFAULT'
          OLDPATHPTR or NEWPATHPTR are invalid pointer values.

     'EACCES'
          No access to the file or the path of the file.

     'ENAMETOOLONG'

          OLDPATH or NEWPATH was too long.

     'ENOENT'
          A directory component in OLDPATH or NEWPATH does not exist.

     'EROFS'
          The file is on a read-only filesystem.

     'ENOSPC'
          The device containing the file has no room for the new
          directory entry.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: unlink,  Next: stat/fstat,  Prev: rename,  Up: List of Supported Calls

unlink
......

Synopsis:
          int unlink(const char *pathname);

Request:
     'Funlink,PATHNAMEPTR/LEN'

Return value:
     On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned.

Errors:

     'EACCES'
          No access to the file or the path of the file.

     'EPERM'
          The system does not allow unlinking of directories.

     'EBUSY'
          The file PATHNAME cannot be unlinked because it's being used
          by another process.

     'EFAULT'
          PATHNAMEPTR is an invalid pointer value.

     'ENAMETOOLONG'
          PATHNAME was too long.

     'ENOENT'
          A directory component in PATHNAME does not exist.

     'ENOTDIR'
          A component of the path is not a directory.

     'EROFS'
          The file is on a read-only filesystem.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: stat/fstat,  Next: gettimeofday,  Prev: unlink,  Up: List of Supported Calls

stat/fstat
..........

Synopsis:
          int stat(const char *pathname, struct stat *buf);
          int fstat(int fd, struct stat *buf);

Request:
     'Fstat,PATHNAMEPTR/LEN,BUFPTR'
     'Ffstat,FD,BUFPTR'

Return value:
     On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned.

Errors:

     'EBADF'
          FD is not a valid open file.

     'ENOENT'
          A directory component in PATHNAME does not exist or the path
          is an empty string.

     'ENOTDIR'
          A component of the path is not a directory.

     'EFAULT'
          PATHNAMEPTR is an invalid pointer value.

     'EACCES'
          No access to the file or the path of the file.

     'ENAMETOOLONG'
          PATHNAME was too long.

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.


File: gdb.info,  Node: gettimeofday,  Next: isatty,  Prev: stat/fstat,  Up: List of Supported Calls

gettimeofday
............

Synopsis:
          int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, void *tz);

Request:
     'Fgettimeofday,TVPTR,TZPTR'

Return value:
     On success, 0 is returned, -1 otherwise.

Errors:

     'EINVAL'
          TZ is a non-NULL pointer.

     'EFAULT'
          TVPTR and/or TZPTR is an invalid pointer value.


File: gdb.info,  Node: isatty,  Next: system,  Prev: gettimeofday,  Up: List of Supported Calls

isatty
......

Synopsis:
          int isatty(int fd);

Request:
     'Fisatty,FD'

Return value:
     Returns 1 if FD refers to the GDB console, 0 otherwise.

Errors:

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.

   Note that the 'isatty' call is treated as a special case: it returns
1 to the target if the file descriptor is attached to the GDB console, 0
otherwise.  Implementing through system calls would require implementing
'ioctl' and would be more complex than needed.


File: gdb.info,  Node: system,  Prev: isatty,  Up: List of Supported Calls

system
......

Synopsis:
          int system(const char *command);

Request:
     'Fsystem,COMMANDPTR/LEN'

Return value:
     If LEN is zero, the return value indicates whether a shell is
     available.  A zero return value indicates a shell is not available.
     For non-zero LEN, the value returned is -1 on error and the return
     status of the command otherwise.  Only the exit status of the
     command is returned, which is extracted from the host's 'system'
     return value by calling 'WEXITSTATUS(retval)'.  In case '/bin/sh'
     could not be executed, 127 is returned.

Errors:

     'EINTR'
          The call was interrupted by the user.

   GDB takes over the full task of calling the necessary host calls to
perform the 'system' call.  The return value of 'system' on the host is
simplified before it's returned to the target.  Any termination signal
information from the child process is discarded, and the return value
consists entirely of the exit status of the called command.

   Due to security concerns, the 'system' call is by default refused by
GDB.  The user has to allow this call explicitly with the 'set remote
system-call-allowed 1' command.

'set remote system-call-allowed'
     Control whether to allow the 'system' calls in the File I/O
     protocol for the remote target.  The default is zero (disabled).

'show remote system-call-allowed'
     Show whether the 'system' calls are allowed in the File I/O
     protocol.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes,  Next: Constants,  Prev: List of Supported Calls,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.8 Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes
----------------------------------------------------

* Menu:

* Integral Datatypes::
* Pointer Values::
* Memory Transfer::
* struct stat::
* struct timeval::


File: gdb.info,  Node: Integral Datatypes,  Next: Pointer Values,  Up: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes

Integral Datatypes
..................

The integral datatypes used in the system calls are 'int', 'unsigned
int', 'long', 'unsigned long', 'mode_t', and 'time_t'.

   'int', 'unsigned int', 'mode_t' and 'time_t' are implemented as 32
bit values in this protocol.

   'long' and 'unsigned long' are implemented as 64 bit types.

   *Note Limits::, for corresponding MIN and MAX values (similar to
those in 'limits.h') to allow range checking on host and target.

   'time_t' datatypes are defined as seconds since the Epoch.

   All integral datatypes transferred as part of a memory read or write
of a structured datatype e.g. a 'struct stat' have to be given in big
endian byte order.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Pointer Values,  Next: Memory Transfer,  Prev: Integral Datatypes,  Up: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes

Pointer Values
..............

Pointers to target data are transmitted as they are.  An exception is
made for pointers to buffers for which the length isn't transmitted as
part of the function call, namely strings.  Strings are transmitted as a
pointer/length pair, both as hex values, e.g.

     1aaf/12

which is a pointer to data of length 18 bytes at position 0x1aaf.  The
length is defined as the full string length in bytes, including the
trailing null byte.  For example, the string '"hello world"' at address
0x123456 is transmitted as

     123456/d


File: gdb.info,  Node: Memory Transfer,  Next: struct stat,  Prev: Pointer Values,  Up: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes

Memory Transfer
...............

Structured data which is transferred using a memory read or write (for
example, a 'struct stat') is expected to be in a protocol-specific
format with all scalar multibyte datatypes being big endian.
Translation to this representation needs to be done both by the target
before the 'F' packet is sent, and by GDB before it transfers memory to
the target.  Transferred pointers to structured data should point to the
already-coerced data at any time.


File: gdb.info,  Node: struct stat,  Next: struct timeval,  Prev: Memory Transfer,  Up: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes

struct stat
...........

The buffer of type 'struct stat' used by the target and GDB is defined
as follows:

     struct stat {
         unsigned int  st_dev;      /* device */
         unsigned int  st_ino;      /* inode */
         mode_t        st_mode;     /* protection */
         unsigned int  st_nlink;    /* number of hard links */
         unsigned int  st_uid;      /* user ID of owner */
         unsigned int  st_gid;      /* group ID of owner */
         unsigned int  st_rdev;     /* device type (if inode device) */
         unsigned long st_size;     /* total size, in bytes */
         unsigned long st_blksize;  /* blocksize for filesystem I/O */
         unsigned long st_blocks;   /* number of blocks allocated */
         time_t        st_atime;    /* time of last access */
         time_t        st_mtime;    /* time of last modification */
         time_t        st_ctime;    /* time of last change */
     };

   The integral datatypes conform to the definitions given in the
appropriate section (see *note Integral Datatypes::, for details) so
this structure is of size 64 bytes.

   The values of several fields have a restricted meaning and/or range
of values.

'st_dev'
     A value of 0 represents a file, 1 the console.

'st_ino'
     No valid meaning for the target.  Transmitted unchanged.

'st_mode'
     Valid mode bits are described in *note Constants::.  Any other bits
     have currently no meaning for the target.

'st_uid'
'st_gid'
'st_rdev'
     No valid meaning for the target.  Transmitted unchanged.

'st_atime'
'st_mtime'
'st_ctime'
     These values have a host and file system dependent accuracy.
     Especially on Windows hosts, the file system may not support exact
     timing values.

   The target gets a 'struct stat' of the above representation and is
responsible for coercing it to the target representation before
continuing.

   Note that due to size differences between the host, target, and
protocol representations of 'struct stat' members, these members could
eventually get truncated on the target.


File: gdb.info,  Node: struct timeval,  Prev: struct stat,  Up: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes

struct timeval
..............

The buffer of type 'struct timeval' used by the File-I/O protocol is
defined as follows:

     struct timeval {
         time_t tv_sec;  /* second */
         long   tv_usec; /* microsecond */
     };

   The integral datatypes conform to the definitions given in the
appropriate section (see *note Integral Datatypes::, for details) so
this structure is of size 8 bytes.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Constants,  Next: File-I/O Examples,  Prev: Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.9 Constants
----------------

The following values are used for the constants inside of the protocol.
GDB and target are responsible for translating these values before and
after the call as needed.

* Menu:

* Open Flags::
* mode_t Values::
* Errno Values::
* Lseek Flags::
* Limits::


File: gdb.info,  Node: Open Flags,  Next: mode_t Values,  Up: Constants

Open Flags
..........

All values are given in hexadecimal representation.

       O_RDONLY        0x0
       O_WRONLY        0x1
       O_RDWR          0x2
       O_APPEND        0x8
       O_CREAT       0x200
       O_TRUNC       0x400
       O_EXCL        0x800


File: gdb.info,  Node: mode_t Values,  Next: Errno Values,  Prev: Open Flags,  Up: Constants

mode_t Values
.............

All values are given in octal representation.

       S_IFREG       0100000
       S_IFDIR        040000
       S_IRUSR          0400
       S_IWUSR          0200
       S_IXUSR          0100
       S_IRGRP           040
       S_IWGRP           020
       S_IXGRP           010
       S_IROTH            04
       S_IWOTH            02
       S_IXOTH            01


File: gdb.info,  Node: Errno Values,  Next: Lseek Flags,  Prev: mode_t Values,  Up: Constants

Errno Values
............

All values are given in decimal representation.

       EPERM           1
       ENOENT          2
       EINTR           4
       EBADF           9
       EACCES         13
       EFAULT         14
       EBUSY          16
       EEXIST         17
       ENODEV         19
       ENOTDIR        20
       EISDIR         21
       EINVAL         22
       ENFILE         23
       EMFILE         24
       EFBIG          27
       ENOSPC         28
       ESPIPE         29
       EROFS          30
       ENAMETOOLONG   91
       EUNKNOWN       9999

   'EUNKNOWN' is used as a fallback error value if a host system returns
any error value not in the list of supported error numbers.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Lseek Flags,  Next: Limits,  Prev: Errno Values,  Up: Constants

Lseek Flags
...........

       SEEK_SET      0
       SEEK_CUR      1
       SEEK_END      2


File: gdb.info,  Node: Limits,  Prev: Lseek Flags,  Up: Constants

Limits
......

All values are given in decimal representation.

       INT_MIN       -2147483648
       INT_MAX        2147483647
       UINT_MAX       4294967295
       LONG_MIN      -9223372036854775808
       LONG_MAX       9223372036854775807
       ULONG_MAX      18446744073709551615


File: gdb.info,  Node: File-I/O Examples,  Prev: Constants,  Up: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension

E.14.10 File-I/O Examples
-------------------------

Example sequence of a write call, file descriptor 3, buffer is at target
address 0x1234, 6 bytes should be written:

     <- Fwrite,3,1234,6
     _request memory read from target_
     -> m1234,6
     <- XXXXXX
     _return "6 bytes written"_
     -> F6

   Example sequence of a read call, file descriptor 3, buffer is at
target address 0x1234, 6 bytes should be read:

     <- Fread,3,1234,6
     _request memory write to target_
     -> X1234,6:XXXXXX
     _return "6 bytes read"_
     -> F6

   Example sequence of a read call, call fails on the host due to
invalid file descriptor ('EBADF'):

     <- Fread,3,1234,6
     -> F-1,9

   Example sequence of a read call, user presses 'Ctrl-c' before syscall
on host is called:

     <- Fread,3,1234,6
     -> F-1,4,C
     <- T02

   Example sequence of a read call, user presses 'Ctrl-c' after syscall
on host is called:

     <- Fread,3,1234,6
     -> X1234,6:XXXXXX
     <- T02


File: gdb.info,  Node: Library List Format,  Next: Library List Format for SVR4 Targets,  Prev: File-I/O Remote Protocol Extension,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.15 Library List Format
========================

On some platforms, a dynamic loader (e.g. 'ld.so') runs in the same
process as your application to manage libraries.  In this case, GDB can
use the loader's symbol table and normal memory operations to maintain a
list of shared libraries.  On other platforms, the operating system
manages loaded libraries.  GDB can not retrieve the list of currently
loaded libraries through memory operations, so it uses the
'qXfer:libraries:read' packet (*note qXfer library list read::) instead.
The remote stub queries the target's operating system and reports which
libraries are loaded.

   The 'qXfer:libraries:read' packet returns an XML document which lists
loaded libraries and their offsets.  Each library has an associated name
and one or more segment or section base addresses, which report where
the library was loaded in memory.

   For the common case of libraries that are fully linked binaries, the
library should have a list of segments.  If the target supports dynamic
linking of a relocatable object file, its library XML element should
instead include a list of allocated sections.  The segment or section
bases are start addresses, not relocation offsets; they do not depend on
the library's link-time base addresses.

   GDB must be linked with the Expat library to support XML library
lists.  *Note Expat::.

   A simple memory map, with one loaded library relocated by a single
offset, looks like this:

     <library-list>
       <library name="/lib/libc.so.6">
         <segment address="0x10000000"/>
       </library>
     </library-list>

   Another simple memory map, with one loaded library with three
allocated sections (.text, .data, .bss), looks like this:

     <library-list>
       <library name="sharedlib.o">
         <section address="0x10000000"/>
         <section address="0x20000000"/>
         <section address="0x30000000"/>
       </library>
     </library-list>

   The format of a library list is described by this DTD:

     <!-- library-list: Root element with versioning -->
     <!ELEMENT library-list  (library)*>
     <!ATTLIST library-list  version CDATA   #FIXED  "1.0">
     <!ELEMENT library       (segment*, section*)>
     <!ATTLIST library       name    CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!ELEMENT segment       EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST segment       address CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!ELEMENT section       EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST section       address CDATA   #REQUIRED>

   In addition, segments and section descriptors cannot be mixed within
a single library element, and you must supply at least one segment or
section for each library.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Library List Format for SVR4 Targets,  Next: Memory Map Format,  Prev: Library List Format,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.16 Library List Format for SVR4 Targets
=========================================

On SVR4 platforms GDB can use the symbol table of a dynamic loader (e.g.
'ld.so') and normal memory operations to maintain a list of shared
libraries.  Still a special library list provided by this packet is more
efficient for the GDB remote protocol.

   The 'qXfer:libraries-svr4:read' packet returns an XML document which
lists loaded libraries and their SVR4 linker parameters.  For each
library on SVR4 target, the following parameters are reported:

   - 'name', the absolute file name from the 'l_name' field of 'struct
     link_map'.
   - 'lm' with address of 'struct link_map' used for TLS (Thread Local
     Storage) access.
   - 'l_addr', the displacement as read from the field 'l_addr' of
     'struct link_map'.  For prelinked libraries this is not an absolute
     memory address.  It is a displacement of absolute memory address
     against address the file was prelinked to during the library load.
   - 'l_ld', which is memory address of the 'PT_DYNAMIC' segment
   - 'lmid', which is an identifier for a linker namespace, such as the
     memory address of the 'r_debug' object that contains this
     namespace's load map or the namespace identifier returned by
     'dlinfo (3)'.

   Additionally the single 'main-lm' attribute specifies address of
'struct link_map' used for the main executable.  This parameter is used
for TLS access and its presence is optional.

   GDB must be linked with the Expat library to support XML SVR4 library
lists.  *Note Expat::.

   A simple memory map, with two loaded libraries (which do not use
prelink), looks like this:

     <library-list-svr4 version="1.0" main-lm="0xe4f8f8">
       <library name="/lib/ld-linux.so.2" lm="0xe4f51c" l_addr="0xe2d000"
                l_ld="0xe4eefc" lmid="0xfffe0"/>
       <library name="/lib/libc.so.6" lm="0xe4fbe8" l_addr="0x154000"
                l_ld="0x152350" lmid="0xfffe0"/>
     </library-list-svr>

   The format of an SVR4 library list is described by this DTD:

     <!-- library-list-svr4: Root element with versioning -->
     <!ELEMENT library-list-svr4  (library)*>
     <!ATTLIST library-list-svr4  version CDATA   #FIXED  "1.0">
     <!ATTLIST library-list-svr4  main-lm CDATA   #IMPLIED>
     <!ELEMENT library            EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST library            name    CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!ATTLIST library            lm      CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!ATTLIST library            l_addr  CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!ATTLIST library            l_ld    CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!ATTLIST library            lmid    CDATA   #IMPLIED>


File: gdb.info,  Node: Memory Map Format,  Next: Thread List Format,  Prev: Library List Format for SVR4 Targets,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.17 Memory Map Format
======================

To be able to write into flash memory, GDB needs to obtain a memory map
from the target.  This section describes the format of the memory map.

   The memory map is obtained using the 'qXfer:memory-map:read' (*note
qXfer memory map read::) packet and is an XML document that lists memory
regions.

   GDB must be linked with the Expat library to support XML memory maps.
*Note Expat::.

   The top-level structure of the document is shown below:

     <?xml version="1.0"?>
     <!DOCTYPE memory-map
               PUBLIC "+//IDN gnu.org//DTD GDB Memory Map V1.0//EN"
                      "http://sourceware.org/gdb/gdb-memory-map.dtd">
     <memory-map>
         region...
     </memory-map>

   Each region can be either:

   * A region of RAM starting at ADDR and extending for LENGTH bytes
     from there:

          <memory type="ram" start="ADDR" length="LENGTH"/>

   * A region of read-only memory:

          <memory type="rom" start="ADDR" length="LENGTH"/>

   * A region of flash memory, with erasure blocks BLOCKSIZE bytes in
     length:

          <memory type="flash" start="ADDR" length="LENGTH">
            <property name="blocksize">BLOCKSIZE</property>
          </memory>

   Regions must not overlap.  GDB assumes that areas of memory not
covered by the memory map are RAM, and uses the ordinary 'M' and 'X'
packets to write to addresses in such ranges.

   The formal DTD for memory map format is given below:

     <!-- ................................................... -->
     <!-- Memory Map XML DTD ................................ -->
     <!-- File: memory-map.dtd .............................. -->
     <!-- .................................... .............. -->
     <!-- memory-map.dtd -->
     <!-- memory-map: Root element with versioning -->
     <!ELEMENT memory-map (memory)*>
     <!ATTLIST memory-map    version CDATA   #FIXED  "1.0.0">
     <!ELEMENT memory (property)*>
     <!-- memory: Specifies a memory region,
                  and its type, or device. -->
     <!ATTLIST memory        type    (ram|rom|flash) #REQUIRED
                             start   CDATA   #REQUIRED
                             length  CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!-- property: Generic attribute tag -->
     <!ELEMENT property (#PCDATA | property)*>
     <!ATTLIST property      name    (blocksize) #REQUIRED>


File: gdb.info,  Node: Thread List Format,  Next: Traceframe Info Format,  Prev: Memory Map Format,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.18 Thread List Format
=======================

To efficiently update the list of threads and their attributes, GDB
issues the 'qXfer:threads:read' packet (*note qXfer threads read::) and
obtains the XML document with the following structure:

     <?xml version="1.0"?>
     <threads>
         <thread id="id" core="0" name="name" id_str="Thread 12.34" handle="1a2b3c">
         ... description ...
         </thread>
     </threads>

   Each 'thread' element must have the 'id' attribute that identifies
the thread (*note thread-id syntax::).  The 'core' attribute, if
present, specifies which processor core the thread was last executing
on.  The 'name' attribute, if present, specifies the human-readable name
of the thread.  The content of the of 'thread' element is interpreted as
human-readable auxiliary information.  The 'id_str' attribute, if
present, specifies what GDB should print as the target ID of the thread
(e.g. in the 'info threads' command or when switching to the thread).
The 'handle' attribute, if present, is a hex encoded representation of
the thread handle.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Traceframe Info Format,  Next: Branch Trace Format,  Prev: Thread List Format,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.19 Traceframe Info Format
===========================

To be able to know which objects in the inferior can be examined when
inspecting a tracepoint hit, GDB needs to obtain the list of memory
ranges, registers and trace state variables that have been collected in
a traceframe.

   This list is obtained using the 'qXfer:traceframe-info:read' (*note
qXfer traceframe info read::) packet and is an XML document.

   GDB must be linked with the Expat library to support XML traceframe
info discovery.  *Note Expat::.

   The top-level structure of the document is shown below:

     <?xml version="1.0"?>
     <!DOCTYPE traceframe-info
               PUBLIC "+//IDN gnu.org//DTD GDB Memory Map V1.0//EN"
                      "http://sourceware.org/gdb/gdb-traceframe-info.dtd">
     <traceframe-info>
        block...
     </traceframe-info>

   Each traceframe block can be either:

   * A region of collected memory starting at ADDR and extending for
     LENGTH bytes from there:

          <memory start="ADDR" length="LENGTH"/>

   * A block indicating trace state variable numbered NUMBER has been
     collected:

          <tvar id="NUMBER"/>

   The formal DTD for the traceframe info format is given below:

     <!ELEMENT traceframe-info  (memory | tvar)* >
     <!ATTLIST traceframe-info  version CDATA   #FIXED  "1.0">

     <!ELEMENT memory        EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST memory        start   CDATA   #REQUIRED
                             length  CDATA   #REQUIRED>
     <!ELEMENT tvar>
     <!ATTLIST tvar          id      CDATA   #REQUIRED>


File: gdb.info,  Node: Branch Trace Format,  Next: Branch Trace Configuration Format,  Prev: Traceframe Info Format,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.20 Branch Trace Format
========================

In order to display the branch trace of an inferior thread, GDB needs to
obtain the list of branches.  This list is represented as list of
sequential code blocks that are connected via branches.  The code in
each block has been executed sequentially.

   This list is obtained using the 'qXfer:btrace:read' (*note qXfer
btrace read::) packet and is an XML document.

   GDB must be linked with the Expat library to support XML traceframe
info discovery.  *Note Expat::.

   The top-level structure of the document is shown below:

     <?xml version="1.0"?>
     <!DOCTYPE btrace
               PUBLIC "+//IDN gnu.org//DTD GDB Branch Trace V1.0//EN"
                      "http://sourceware.org/gdb/gdb-btrace.dtd">
     <btrace>
        block...
     </btrace>

   * A block of sequentially executed instructions starting at BEGIN and
     ending at END:

          <block begin="BEGIN" end="END"/>

   The formal DTD for the branch trace format is given below:

     <!ELEMENT btrace  (block* | pt) >
     <!ATTLIST btrace  version CDATA   #FIXED "1.0">

     <!ELEMENT block        EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST block        begin  CDATA   #REQUIRED
                            end    CDATA   #REQUIRED>

     <!ELEMENT pt (pt-config?, raw?)>

     <!ELEMENT pt-config (cpu?)>

     <!ELEMENT cpu EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST cpu vendor   CDATA #REQUIRED
                   family   CDATA #REQUIRED
                   model    CDATA #REQUIRED
                   stepping CDATA #REQUIRED>

     <!ELEMENT raw (#PCDATA)>


File: gdb.info,  Node: Branch Trace Configuration Format,  Prev: Branch Trace Format,  Up: Remote Protocol

E.21 Branch Trace Configuration Format
======================================

For each inferior thread, GDB can obtain the branch trace configuration
using the 'qXfer:btrace-conf:read' (*note qXfer btrace-conf read::)
packet.

   The configuration describes the branch trace format and configuration
settings for that format.  The following information is described:

'bts'
     This thread uses the "Branch Trace Store" (BTS) format.
     'size'
          The size of the BTS ring buffer in bytes.
'pt'
     This thread uses the "Intel Processor Trace" (Intel PT) format.
     'size'
          The size of the Intel PT ring buffer in bytes.

   GDB must be linked with the Expat library to support XML branch trace
configuration discovery.  *Note Expat::.

   The formal DTD for the branch trace configuration format is given
below:

     <!ELEMENT btrace-conf		(bts?, pt?)>
     <!ATTLIST btrace-conf		version	CDATA	#FIXED "1.0">

     <!ELEMENT bts	EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST bts	size		CDATA	#IMPLIED>

     <!ELEMENT pt	EMPTY>
     <!ATTLIST pt	size		CDATA	#IMPLIED>
     <!ATTLIST pt	ptwrite		(yes | no)	#IMPLIED>
     <!ATTLIST pt	event-tracing	(yes | no)	#IMPLIED>


File: gdb.info,  Node: Agent Expressions,  Next: Target Descriptions,  Prev: Remote Protocol,  Up: Top

Appendix F The GDB Agent Expression Mechanism
*********************************************

In some applications, it is not feasible for the debugger to interrupt
the program's execution long enough for the developer to learn anything
helpful about its behavior.  If the program's correctness depends on its
real-time behavior, delays introduced by a debugger might cause the
program to fail, even when the code itself is correct.  It is useful to
be able to observe the program's behavior without interrupting it.

   Using GDB's 'trace' and 'collect' commands, the user can specify
locations in the program, and arbitrary expressions to evaluate when
those locations are reached.  Later, using the 'tfind' command, she can
examine the values those expressions had when the program hit the trace
points.  The expressions may also denote objects in memory -- structures
or arrays, for example -- whose values GDB should record; while visiting
a particular tracepoint, the user may inspect those objects as if they
were in memory at that moment.  However, because GDB records these
values without interacting with the user, it can do so quickly and
unobtrusively, hopefully not disturbing the program's behavior.

   When GDB is debugging a remote target, the GDB "agent" code running
on the target computes the values of the expressions itself.  To avoid
having a full symbolic expression evaluator on the agent, GDB translates
expressions in the source language into a simpler bytecode language, and
then sends the bytecode to the agent; the agent then executes the
bytecode, and records the values for GDB to retrieve later.

   The bytecode language is simple; there are forty-odd opcodes, the
bulk of which are the usual vocabulary of C operands (addition,
subtraction, shifts, and so on) and various sizes of literals and memory
reference operations.  The bytecode interpreter operates strictly on
machine-level values -- various sizes of integers and floating point
numbers -- and requires no information about types or symbols; thus, the
interpreter's internal data structures are simple, and each bytecode
requires only a few native machine instructions to implement it.  The
interpreter is small, and strict limits on the memory and time required
to evaluate an expression are easy to determine, making it suitable for
use by the debugging agent in real-time applications.

* Menu:

* General Bytecode Design::     Overview of the interpreter.
* Bytecode Descriptions::       What each one does.
* Using Agent Expressions::     How agent expressions fit into the big picture.
* Varying Target Capabilities:: How to discover what the target can do.
* Rationale::                   Why we did it this way.


File: gdb.info,  Node: General Bytecode Design,  Next: Bytecode Descriptions,  Up: Agent Expressions

F.1 General Bytecode Design
===========================

The agent represents bytecode expressions as an array of bytes.  Each
instruction is one byte long (thus the term "bytecode").  Some
instructions are followed by operand bytes; for example, the 'goto'
instruction is followed by a destination for the jump.

   The bytecode interpreter is a stack-based machine; most instructions
pop their operands off the stack, perform some operation, and push the
result back on the stack for the next instruction to consume.  Each
element of the stack may contain either a integer or a floating point
value; these values are as many bits wide as the largest integer that
can be directly manipulated in the source language.  Stack elements
carry no record of their type; bytecode could push a value as an
integer, then pop it as a floating point value.  However, GDB will not
generate code which does this.  In C, one might define the type of a
stack element as follows:
     union agent_val {
       LONGEST l;
       DOUBLEST d;
     };
where 'LONGEST' and 'DOUBLEST' are 'typedef' names for the largest
integer and floating point types on the machine.

   By the time the bytecode interpreter reaches the end of the
expression, the value of the expression should be the only value left on
the stack.  For tracing applications, 'trace' bytecodes in the
expression will have recorded the necessary data, and the value on the
stack may be discarded.  For other applications, like conditional
breakpoints, the value may be useful.

   Separate from the stack, the interpreter has two registers:
'pc'
     The address of the next bytecode to execute.

'start'
     The address of the start of the bytecode expression, necessary for
     interpreting the 'goto' and 'if_goto' instructions.

Neither of these registers is directly visible to the bytecode language
itself, but they are useful for defining the meanings of the bytecode
operations.

   There are no instructions to perform side effects on the running
program, or call the program's functions; we assume that these
expressions are only used for unobtrusive debugging, not for patching
the running code.

   Most bytecode instructions do not distinguish between the various
sizes of values, and operate on full-width values; the upper bits of the
values are simply ignored, since they do not usually make a difference
to the value computed.  The exceptions to this rule are:

memory reference instructions ('ref'N)
     There are distinct instructions to fetch different word sizes from
     memory.  Once on the stack, however, the values are treated as
     full-size integers.  They may need to be sign-extended; the 'ext'
     instruction exists for this purpose.

the sign-extension instruction ('ext' N)
     These clearly need to know which portion of their operand is to be
     extended to occupy the full length of the word.

   If the interpreter is unable to evaluate an expression completely for
some reason (a memory location is inaccessible, or a divisor is zero,
for example), we say that interpretation "terminates with an error".
This means that the problem is reported back to the interpreter's caller
in some helpful way.  In general, code using agent expressions should
assume that they may attempt to divide by zero, fetch arbitrary memory
locations, and misbehave in other ways.

   Even complicated C expressions compile to a few bytecode
instructions; for example, the expression 'x + y * z' would typically
produce code like the following, assuming that 'x' and 'y' live in
registers, and 'z' is a global variable holding a 32-bit 'int':
     reg 1
     reg 2
     const32 address of z
     ref32
     ext 32
     mul
     add
     end

   In detail, these mean:

'reg 1'
     Push the value of register 1 (presumably holding 'x') onto the
     stack.

'reg 2'
     Push the value of register 2 (holding 'y').

'const32 address of z'
     Push the address of 'z' onto the stack.

'ref32'
     Fetch a 32-bit word from the address at the top of the stack;
     replace the address on the stack with the value.  Thus, we replace
     the address of 'z' with 'z''s value.

'ext 32'
     Sign-extend the value on the top of the stack from 32 bits to full
     length.  This is necessary because 'z' is a signed integer.

'mul'
     Pop the top two numbers on the stack, multiply them, and push their
     product.  Now the top of the stack contains the value of the
     expression 'y * z'.

'add'
     Pop the top two numbers, add them, and push the sum.  Now the top
     of the stack contains the value of 'x + y * z'.

'end'
     Stop executing; the value left on the stack top is the value to be
     recorded.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Bytecode Descriptions,  Next: Using Agent Expressions,  Prev: General Bytecode Design,  Up: Agent Expressions

F.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.

     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.

'pick' (0x32) N: A ... B => A ... B A
     Duplicate an item from the stack and push it on the top of the
     stack.  N, a single byte, indicates the stack item to copy.  If N
     is zero, this is the same as 'dup'; if N is one, it copies the item
     under the top item, etc.  If N exceeds the number of items on the
     stack, terminate with an error.

'rot' (0x33): A B C => C A B
     Rotate the top three items on the stack.  The top item (c) becomes
     the third item, the next-to-top item (b) becomes the top item and
     the third item (a) from the top becomes the next-to-top item.

'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 => 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'.

'tracenz' (0x2f) ADDR SIZE =>
     Record the bytes at ADDR in a trace buffer, for later retrieval by
     GDB. Stop at either the first zero byte, or when SIZE bytes have
     been recorded, whichever occurs first.

'printf' (0x34) NUMARGS STRING =>
     Do a formatted print, in the style of the C function 'printf').
     The value of NUMARGS is the number of arguments to expect on the
     stack, while STRING is the format string, prefixed with a two-byte
     length.  The last byte of the string must be zero, and is included
     in the length.  The format string includes escaped sequences just
     as it appears in C source, so for instance the format string
     '"\t%d\n"' is six characters long, and the output will consist of a
     tab character, a decimal number, and a newline.  At the top of the
     stack, above the values to be printed, this bytecode will pop a
     "function" and "channel".  If the function is nonzero, then the
     target may treat it as a function and call it, passing the channel
     as a first argument, as with the C function 'fprintf'.  If the
     function is zero, then the target may simply call a standard
     formatted print function of its choice.  In all, this bytecode pops
     2 + NUMARGS stack elements, and pushes nothing.

'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

F.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

F.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

F.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.


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Appendix G Target Descriptions
******************************

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.
* Enum Target Types::               How to define enum target types.
* 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 and enum 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 either a structure type or a flags type.  A flags type
may only contain bitfields.  A structure type may either contain only
bitfields or contain no bitfields.  If the value contains only
bitfields, its total size in bytes must be specified.

   Non-bitfield values have a NAME and TYPE.

     <struct id="ID">
       <field name="NAME" type="TYPE"/>
       ...
     </struct>

   Both NAME and TYPE values are required.  No implicit padding is
added.

   Bitfield values have a NAME, START, END and TYPE.

     <struct id="ID" size="SIZE">
       <field name="NAME" start="START" end="END" type="TYPE"/>
       ...
     </struct>

     <flags id="ID" size="SIZE">
       <field name="NAME" start="START" end="END" type="TYPE"/>
       ...
     </flags>

   The NAME value is required.  Bitfield values may be named with the
empty string, '""', in which case the field is "filler" and its value is
not printed.  Not all bits need to be specified, so "filler" fields are
optional.

   The START and END values are required, and TYPE is optional.  The
field's START must be less than or equal to its END, and zero represents
the least significant bit.

   The default value of TYPE is 'bool' for single bit fields, and an
unsigned integer otherwise.

   Which to choose?  Structures or flags?

   Registers defined with 'flags' have these advantages over defining
them with 'struct':

   * Arithmetic may be performed on them as if they were integers.
   * They are printed in a more readable fashion.

   Registers defined with 'struct' have one advantage over defining them
with 'flags':

   * One can fetch individual fields like in 'C'.

          (gdb) print $my_struct_reg.field3
          $1 = 42

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 preceding 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.  It 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.  It can be one
     of the standard register groups 'general', 'float', 'vector' or an
     arbitrary string.  Group names should be limited to alphanumeric
     characters.  If a group name is made up of multiple words the words
     may be separated by hyphens; e.g. 'special-group' or
     'ultra-special-group'.  If no GROUP is specified, GDB will not
     display the register in 'info registers'.


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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:

'bool'
     Boolean type, occupying a single bit.

'int8'
'int16'
'int24'
'int32'
'int64'
'int128'
     Signed integer types holding the specified number of bits.

'uint8'
'uint16'
'uint24'
'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_half'
     Half precision IEEE floating point.

'ieee_single'
     Single precision IEEE floating point.

'ieee_double'
     Double precision IEEE floating point.

'bfloat16'
     The 16-bit "brain floating point" format used e.g. by x86 and ARM.

'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: Enum Target Types,  Next: Standard Target Features,  Prev: Predefined Target Types,  Up: Target Descriptions

G.4 Enum Target Types
=====================

Enum target types are useful in 'struct' and 'flags' register
descriptions.  *Note Target Description Format::.

   Enum types have a name, size and a list of name/value pairs.

     <enum id="ID" size="SIZE">
       <evalue name="NAME" value="VALUE"/>
       ...
     </enum>

   Enums must be defined before they are used.

     <enum id="levels_type" size="4">
       <evalue name="low" value="0"/>
       <evalue name="high" value="1"/>
     </enum>
     <flags id="flags_type" size="4">
       <field name="X" start="0"/>
       <field name="LEVEL" start="1" end="1" type="levels_type"/>
     </flags>
     <reg name="flags" bitsize="32" type="flags_type"/>

   Given that description, a value of 3 for the 'flags' register would
be printed as:

     (gdb) info register flags
     flags 0x3 [ X LEVEL=high ]


File: gdb.info,  Node: Standard Target Features,  Prev: Enum Target Types,  Up: Target Descriptions

G.5 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:

* AArch64 Features::
* Alpha Features::
* ARC Features::
* ARM Features::
* i386 Features::
* LoongArch Features::
* MicroBlaze Features::
* MIPS Features::
* M68K Features::
* NDS32 Features::
* OpenRISC 1000 Features::
* PowerPC Features::
* RISC-V Features::
* RX Features::
* S/390 and System z Features::
* Sparc Features::
* TIC6x Features::


File: gdb.info,  Node: AArch64 Features,  Next: Alpha Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.1 AArch64 Features
----------------------

G.5.1.1 AArch64 core registers feature
......................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.core' feature is required for AArch64 targets.
It must contain the following:

   - 'x0' through 'x30', the general purpose registers, with size of 64
     bits.  Register 'x30' is also known as the "link register", or
     'lr'.
   - 'sp', the stack pointer register or 'x31'.  It is 64 bits in size
     and has a type of 'data_ptr'.
   - 'pc', the program counter register.  It is 64 bits in size and has
     a type of 'code_ptr'.
   - 'cpsr', the current program status register.  It is 32 bits in size
     and has a custom flags type.

   The semantics of the individual flags and fields in 'cpsr' can change
as new architectural features are added.  The current layout can be
found in the aarch64-core.xml file.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.1.2 AArch64 floating-point registers feature
................................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.fpu' feature is optional.  If present, it must
contain the following registers:

   - 'v0' through 'v31', the vector registers with size of 128 bits.
     The type is a custom vector type.
   - 'fpsr', the floating-point status register.  It is 32 bits in size
     and has a custom flags type.
   - 'fpcr', the floating-point control register.  It is 32 bits in size
     and has a custom flags type.

   The semantics of the individual flags and fields in 'fpsr' and 'fpcr'
can change as new architectural features are added.

   The types for the vector registers, 'fpsr' and 'fpcr' registers can
be found in the aarch64-fpu.xml file.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.1.3 AArch64 SVE registers feature
.....................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sve' feature is optional.  If present, it means
the target supports the Scalable Vector Extension and must contain the
following registers:

   - 'z0' through 'z31', the scalable vector registers.  Their sizes are
     variable and a multiple of 128 bits up to a maximum of 2048 bit.
     Their type is a custom union type that helps visualize different
     sizes of sub-vectors.
   - 'fpsr', the floating-point status register.  It is 32 bits in size
     and has a custom flags type.
   - 'fpcr', the floating-point control register.  It is 32 bits in size
     and has a custom flags type.
   - 'p0' through 'p15', the predicate registers.  Their sizes are
     variable, based on the current vector length, and a multiple of 16
     bits.  Their types are a custom union to help visualize
     sub-elements.
   - 'ffr', the First Fault register.  It has a variable size based on
     the current vector length and is a multiple of 16 bits.  The type
     is the same as the predicate registers.
   - 'vg', the vector granule.  It represents the number of 64 bits
     chunks in a 'z' register.  It is closely associated with the
     current vector length.  It has a type of 'int'.

   When GDB sees the SVE feature, it will assume the Scalable Vector
Extension is supported, and will adjust the sizes of the 'z', 'p' and
'ffr' registers accordingly, based on the value of 'vg'.

   GDB will also create pseudo-registers equivalent to the 'v' vector
registers from the 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.fpu' feature.

   The first 128 bits of the 'z' registers overlap the 128 bits of the
'v' registers, so changing one will trigger a change to the other.

   For the types of the 'z', 'p' and 'ffr' registers, please check the
aarch64-sve.c file.  No XML file is available for this feature because
it is dynamically generated based on the current vector length.

   The semantics of the individual flags and fields in 'fpsr' and 'fpcr'
can change as new architectural features are added.

   The types for the 'fpsr' and 'fpcr' registers can be found in the
aarch64-sve.c file, and should match what is described in
aarch64-fpu.xml.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.1.4 AArch64 Pointer Authentication registers feature
........................................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth' optional feature was introduced so GDB
could detect support for the Pointer Authentication extension.  If
present, it must contain one of two possible register sets.

   Pointer Authentication masks for user-mode:

   - 'pauth_dmask', the user-mode pointer authentication mask for data
     pointers.  It is 64 bits in size.
   - 'pauth_cmask', the user-mode pointer authentication mask for code
     pointers.  It is 64 bits in size.

   Pointer Authentication masks for user-mode and kernel-mode:

   - 'pauth_dmask', the user-mode pointer authentication mask for data
     pointers.  It is 64 bits in size.
   - 'pauth_cmask', the user-mode pointer authentication mask for code
     pointers.  It is 64 bits in size.
   - 'pauth_dmask_high', the kernel-mode pointer authentication mask for
     data pointers.  It is 64 bits in size.
   - 'pauth_cmask_high', the kernel-mode pointer authentication mask for
     code pointers.  It is 64 bits in size.

   If GDB sees any of the two sets of registers in this feature, it will
assume the target is capable of signing pointers.  If so, GDB will
decorate backtraces with a '[PAC]' marker alongside a function that has
a signed link register value that needs to be unmasked/decoded.

   GDB will also use the masks to remove non-address bits from pointers.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

   Please note the 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth' feature string is
deprecated and must only be used for backwards compatibility with older
releases of GDB and 'gdbserver'.  Targets that support Pointer
Authentication must advertise such capability by using the
'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth_v2' feature string instead.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth_v2' feature has the exact same
contents as feature 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth'.

   The reason for having feature 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth_v2' is a bug
in previous versions of GDB (versions 9, 10, 11 and 12).  This bug
caused GDB to crash whenever the target reported support for Pointer
Authentication (using feature string 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth') and
also reported additional system registers that were not accounted for by
GDB.  This is more common when using emulators and on bare-metal
debugging scenarios.

   It can also happen if a newer gdbserver is used with an old GDB that
has the bug.  In such a case, the newer gdbserver might report Pointer
Authentication support via the 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth' feature
string and also report additional registers the older GDB does not know
about, potentially leading to a crash.

G.5.1.5 AArch64 TLS registers feature
.....................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.tls' optional feature was introduced to expose
the TLS registers to GDB.  If present, it must contain either one of the
following register sets.

   Only 'tpidr':

   - 'tpidr', the software thread id register.  It is 64 bits in size
     and has a type of 'data_ptr'.

   Both 'tpidr' and 'tpidr2'.

   - 'tpidr', the software thread id register.  It is 64 bits in size
     and has a type of 'data_ptr'.
   - 'tpidr2', the second software thread id register.  It is 64 bits in
     size and has a type of 'data_ptr'.  It may be used in the future
     alongside the Scalable Matrix Extension for a lazy restore scheme.

   If GDB sees this feature, it will attempt to find one of the
variations of the register set.  If 'tpidr2' is available, GDB may act
on it to display additional data in the future.

   There is no XML for this feature as the presence of 'tpidr2' is
determined dynamically at runtime.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.1.6 AArch64 MTE registers feature
.....................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.mte' optional feature was introduced so GDB
could detect support for the Memory Tagging Extension and control memory
tagging settings.  If present, this feature must have the following
register:

   - 'tag_ctl', the tag control register.  It is 64 bits in size and has
     a type of 'uint64'.

   Memory Tagging detection is done via a runtime check though, so the
presence of this feature and register is not enough to enable memory
tagging support.

   This restriction may be lifted in the future.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.1.7 AArch64 SME registers feature
.....................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sme' feature is optional.  If present, it
should contain registers 'ZA', 'SVG' and 'SVCR'.  *Note AArch64 SME::.

   - 'ZA' is a register represented by a vector of SVLxSVL bytes.  *Note
     svl::.

   - 'SVG' is a 64-bit register containing the value of SVG.  *Note
     svg::.

   - 'SVCR' is a 64-bit status pseudo-register with two valid bits.  Bit
     0 (SM) shows whether the streaming SVE mode is enabled or disabled.
     Bit 1 (ZA) shows whether the 'ZA' register state is active (in use)
     or not.  *Note aarch64 sme svcr::.

     The rest of the unused bits of the 'SVCR' pseudo-register is
     undefined and reserved.  Such bits should not be used and may be
     defined by future extensions of the architecture.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sme' feature is required when the target
also reports support for the 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sme2' feature.

G.5.1.8 AArch64 SME2 registers feature
......................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sme2' feature is optional.  If present, then
the 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sme' feature must also be present.  The
'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sme2' feature should contain the following: *Note
AArch64 SME2::.

   - 'ZT0' is a register of 512 bits (64 bytes).  It is defined as a
     vector of bytes.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.1.9 AArch64 GCS registers feature
.....................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.gcs' feature is optional.  If present, it means
the target supports Guarded Control Stacks and must contain the
following register:

   - 'gcspr', which points to the thread's Guarded Control Stack.  It is
     64 bits in size and has a type of 'data_ptr'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.gcs.linux' feature is optional.  If present,
then the 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.gcs' feature must also be present.  The
'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.gcs.linux' feature represents facilities provided
by the Linux kernel for GCS support and should contain the following:

   - 'gcs_features_enabled' shows the features currently enabled via the
     prctl or ptrace system calls.  It is represented as if it were a
     64-bit register with a custom flags type.

   - 'gcs_features_locked' shows the features currently locked via the
     prctl or ptrace system calls.  It is represented as if it were a
     64-bit register with a custom flags type.

   The custom flags type allows GDB to print a human-friendly
representation of the contents of 'gcs_features_enabled' and
'gcs_features_locked' and should contain:

   - 'PR_SHADOW_STACK_ENABLE'

   - 'PR_SHADOW_STACK_WRITE'

   - 'PR_SHADOW_STACK_PUSH'

   For further information, see the documentation in the Linux kernel.

   Extra registers are allowed in these features, but they will not
affect GDB.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Alpha Features,  Next: ARC Features,  Prev: AArch64 Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.2 Alpha Features
--------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.alpha.core' feature is required for Alpha targets.  It
must contain the following 64-bit registers; note that GDB uses the
software names for Alpha registers:

   - 'v0': function return value
   - 't0' through 't12': temporary registers
   - 's0' through 's5': saved registers
   - 'fp': frame pointer
   - 'a0' through 'a5': argument registers
   - 'ra': return address
   - 'at': assembler temporary register
   - 'gp': global pointer
   - 'sp': stack pointer
   - 'zero': always zero
   - 'f0' through 'f30': floating-point registers
   - 'fpcr': floating-point control register
   - 'pc': program counter
   - '': an anonymous register for historical purpose
   - 'unique': PALcode memory slot


File: gdb.info,  Node: ARC Features,  Next: ARM Features,  Prev: Alpha Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.3 ARC Features
------------------

ARC processors are so configurable that even core registers and their
numbers are not predetermined completely.  Moreover, _flags_ and _PC_
registers, which are important to GDB, are not "core" registers in ARC.
Therefore, there are two features that their presence is mandatory:
'org.gnu.gdb.arc.core' and 'org.gnu.gdb.arc.aux'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.arc.core' feature is required for all targets.  It
must contain registers:

   - 'r0' through 'r25' for normal register file targets.
   - 'r0' through 'r3', and 'r10' through 'r15' for reduced register
     file targets.
   - 'gp', 'fp', 'sp', 'r30'(1), 'blink', 'lp_count', 'pcl'.

   In case of an ARCompact target (ARCv1 ISA), the
'org.gnu.gdb.arc.core' feature may contain registers 'ilink1' and
'ilink2'.  While in case of ARC EM and ARC HS targets (ARCv2 ISA),
register 'ilink' may be present.  The difference between ARCv1 and ARCv2
is the naming of registers _29th_ and _30th_.  They are called 'ilink1'
and 'ilink2' for ARCv1 and are optional.  For ARCv2, they are called
'ilink' and 'r30' and only 'ilink' is optional.  The optionality of
'ilink*' registers is because of their inaccessibility during user space
debugging sessions.

   Extension core registers 'r32' through 'r59' are optional and their
existence depends on the configuration.  When debugging GNU/Linux
applications, i.e. user space debugging, these core registers are not
available.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.arc.aux' feature is required for all ARC targets.
Here is the list of registers pertinent to this feature:

   - mandatory: 'pc' and 'status32'.
   - optional: 'lp_start', 'lp_end', and 'bta'.

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) Not necessary for ARCv1.


File: gdb.info,  Node: ARM Features,  Next: i386 Features,  Prev: ARC Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.4 ARM Features
------------------

G.5.4.1 Core register set for non-M-profile
...........................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.core' feature is required for non-M-profile ARM
targets.  It must contain the following registers:

   - 'r0' through 'r12'.  The general purpose registers.  They are 32
     bits in size and have a type of 'uint32'.
   - 'sp', the stack pointer register, also known as 'r13'.  It is 32
     bits in size and has a type of 'data_ptr'.
   - 'lr', the link register.  It is 32 bits in size.
   - 'pc', the program counter register.  It is 32 bit in size and of
     type 'code_ptr'.
   - 'cpsr', the current program status register containing all the
     status bits.  It is 32 bits in size.  Historically this register
     was hardwired to number 25, but debugging stubs that report XML do
     not need to use this number anymore.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.2 Core register set for M-profile
.......................................

For M-profile targets (e.g. Cortex-M3), the 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.core'
feature is replaced by 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile', and it is a required
feature.  It must contain the following registers:

   - 'r0' through 'r12', the general purpose registers.  They have a
     size of 32 bits and a type of 'uint32'.
   - 'sp', the stack pointer register, also known as 'r13'.  It has a
     size of 32 bits and a type of 'data_ptr'.
   - 'lr', the link register.  It has a size of 32 bits.
   - 'pc', the program counter register.  It has a size of 32 bits and a
     type of 'code_ptr'.
   - 'xpsr', the program status register containing all the status bits.
     It has a size of 32 bits.  Historically this register was hardwired
     to number 25, but debugging stubs that report XML do not need to
     use this number anymore.

   Upon seeing this feature, GDB will acknowledge that it is dealing
with an M-profile target.  This means GDB will use hooks and
configurations that are meaningful to M-profiles.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.3 FPA registers feature (obsolete)
........................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.fpa' feature is obsolete and should not be
advertised by debugging stubs anymore.  It used to advertise registers
for the old FPA architecture that has long been discontinued in
toolchains.

   It is kept in GDB for backward compatibility purposes so older
debugging stubs that don't support XML target descriptions still work
correctly.  One such example is the KGDB debugging stub from Linux or
BSD kernels.

   The description below is for historical purposes only.  This feature
used to contain the following registers:

   - 'f0' through 'f8'.  The floating point registers.  They are 96 bits
     in size and of type 'arm_fpa_ext'.  'f0' is pinned to register
     number 16.
   - 'fps', the status register.  It has a size of 32 bits.

G.5.4.4 M-profile Vector Extension (MVE)
........................................

Also known as Helium, the M-profile Vector Extension is advertised via
the optional 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile-mve' feature.

   It must contain the following:

   - 'vpr', the vector predication status and control register.  It is
     32 bits in size and has a custom flags type.  The flags type is
     laid out in a way that exposes the 'P0' field from bits 0 to 15,
     the 'MASK01' field from bits 16 to 19 and the 'MASK23' field from
     bits 20 to 23.

     Bits 24 through 31 are reserved.

   When this feature is available, GDB will synthesize the 'p0'
pseudo-register from 'vpr' contents.

   This feature must only be advertised if the target is M-profile.
Advertising this feature for targets that are not M-profile may cause
GDB to assume the target is M-profile when it isn't.

   If the 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.vfp' feature is available alongside the
'org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile-mve' feature, GDB will synthesize the 'q'
pseudo-registers from 'd' register contents.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.5 XScale iwMMXt feature
.............................

The XScale 'org.gnu.gdb.xscale.iwmmxt' feature is optional.  If present,
it must contain the following:

   - 'wR0' through 'wR15', registers with size 64 bits and a custom type
     'iwmmxt_vec64i'.  'iwmmxt_vec64i' is a union of four other types:
     'uint64', a 2-element vector of 'uint32', a 4-element vector of
     'uint16' and a 8-element vector of 'uint8'.
   - 'wCGR0' through 'wCGR3', registers with size 32 bits and type
     'int'.

   The following registers are optional:

   - 'wCID', register with size of 32 bits and type 'int'.
   - 'wCon', register with size 32 bits and type 'int'.
   - 'wCSSF', register with size 32 bits and type 'int'.
   - 'wCASF', register with size 32 bit and type 'int'.

   This feature should only be reported if the target is XScale.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.6 Vector Floating-Point (VFP) feature
...........................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.vfp' feature is optional.  If present, it should
contain one of two possible sets of values depending on whether VFP
version 2 or VFP version 3 is in use.

   For VFP v2:

   - 'd0' through 'd15'.  The double-precision registers.  They are 64
     bits in size and have type 'ieee_double'.
   - 'fpscr', the floating-point status and control register.  It has a
     size of 32 bits and a type of 'int'.

   For VFP v3:

   - 'd0' through 'd31'.  The double-precision registers.  They are 64
     bits in size and have type 'ieee_double'.
   - 'fpscr', the floating-point status and control register.  It has a
     size of 32 bits and a type of 'int'.

   If this feature is available, GDB will synthesize the
single-precision floating-point registers from halves of the
double-precision registers as pseudo-registers.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.7 NEON architecture feature
.................................

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.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.8 M-profile Pointer Authentication and Branch Target Identification feature
.................................................................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile-pacbti' feature is optional, and
acknowledges support for the ARMv8.1-m PACBTI extensions.

   This feature doesn't contain any required registers, and it only
serves as a hint to GDB that the debugging stub supports the ARMv8.1-m
PACBTI extensions.

   When GDB sees this feature, it will track return address signing
states and will decorate backtraces using the [PAC] marker, similar to
AArch64's PAC extension.  *Note AArch64 PAC::.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.9 M-profile system registers feature
..........................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-system' optional feature was introduced as a way
to inform GDB about additional system registers.

   At the moment this feature must contain the following:

   - 'msp', the main stack pointer register.  It is 32 bits in size with
     type 'data_ptr'.
   - 'psp', the process stack pointer register.  It is 32 bits in size
     with type 'data_ptr'.

   This feature must only be advertised for M-profile targets.  When GDB
sees this feature, it will attempt to track the values of 'msp' and
'psp' across frames.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.10 M-profile Security Extensions feature
..............................................

The 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.secext' optional feature was introduced so GDB
could better support the switching of stack pointers and secure states
in the Security Extensions.

   At the moment this feature must contain the following:

   - 'msp_ns', the main stack pointer register (non-secure state).  It
     is 32 bits in size with type 'data_ptr'.
   - 'psp_ns', the process stack pointer register (non-secure state).
     It is 32 bits in size with type 'data_ptr'.
   - 'msp_s', the main stack pointer register (secure state).  It is 32
     bits in size with type 'data_ptr'.
   - 'psp_s', the process stack pointer register (secure state).  It is
     32 bits in size with type 'data_ptr'.

   When GDB sees this feature, it will attempt to track the values of
all 4 stack pointers across secure state transitions, potentially
improving unwinding when applications switch between security states.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.

G.5.4.11 TLS registers feature
..............................

The optional 'org.gnu.gdb.arm.tls' feature contains TLS registers.

   Currently it contains the following:

   - 'tpidruro', the user read-only thread id register.  It is 32 bits
     in size and has type 'data_ptr'.

   At the moment GDB looks for this feature, but doesn't do anything
with it other than displaying it.

   Extra registers are allowed in this feature, but they will not affect
GDB.


File: gdb.info,  Node: i386 Features,  Next: LoongArch Features,  Prev: ARM Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.5 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'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.i386.segments' feature is optional.  It should
describe two system registers: 'fs_base' and 'gs_base'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.i386.avx512' feature is optional and requires the
'org.gnu.gdb.i386.avx' feature.  It should describe additional XMM
registers:

   - 'xmm16' through 'xmm31', only valid for amd64.

   It should describe the upper 128 bits of additional YMM registers:

   - 'ymm16h' through 'ymm31h', only valid for amd64.

   It should describe the upper 256 bits of ZMM registers:

   - 'zmm0h' through 'zmm7h' for i386.
   - 'zmm0h' through 'zmm15h' for amd64.

   It should describe the additional ZMM registers:

   - 'zmm16h' through 'zmm31h', only valid for amd64.

   It should describe the additional 64-bit K registers:

   - 'k0' through 'k7', valid for amd64 and i386.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.i386.pkeys' feature is optional.  It should describe
a single register, 'pkru'.  It is a 32-bit register valid for i386 and
amd64.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.i386.pl3_ssp' feature is optional.  It should
describe the user mode register 'pl3_ssp' which has 64 bits on amd64, 32
bits on amd64 with 32-bit pointer size (X32) and 32 bits on i386.
Following the restriction of the Linux kernel, only GDB for amd64
targets makes use of this feature for now.


File: gdb.info,  Node: LoongArch Features,  Next: MicroBlaze Features,  Prev: i386 Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.6 LoongArch Features
------------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.loongarch.base' feature is required for LoongArch
targets.  It should contain the registers 'r0' through 'r31', 'pc', and
'badv'.  Either the architectural names ('r0', 'r1', etc) can be used,
or the ABI names ('zero', 'ra', etc).

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.loongarch.fpu' feature is optional.  If present, it
should contain registers 'f0' through 'f31', 'fcc', and 'fcsr'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: MicroBlaze Features,  Next: MIPS Features,  Prev: LoongArch Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.7 MicroBlaze Features
-------------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.microblaze.core' feature is required for MicroBlaze
targets.  It should contain registers 'r0' through 'r31', 'rpc', 'rmsr',
'rear', 'resr', 'rfsr', 'rbtr', 'rpvr', 'rpvr1' through 'rpvr11',
'redr', 'rpid', 'rzpr', 'rtlbx', 'rtlbsx', 'rtlblo', and 'rtlbhi'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.microblaze.stack-protect' feature is optional.  If
present, it should contain registers 'rshr' and 'rslr'


File: gdb.info,  Node: MIPS Features,  Next: M68K Features,  Prev: MicroBlaze Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.8 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.dsp' feature is optional.  It should contain
registers 'hi1' through 'hi3', 'lo1' through 'lo3', and 'dspctl'.  The
'dspctl' register should be 32-bit and the rest 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: NDS32 Features,  Prev: MIPS Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.9 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'.

     Note that, despite the fact that this feature's name says
     'coldfire', it is used to describe any floating point registers.
     The size of the registers must match the main m68k flavor; so, for
     example, if the primary feature is reported as 'coldfire', then
     64-bit floating point registers are required.


File: gdb.info,  Node: NDS32 Features,  Next: OpenRISC 1000 Features,  Prev: M68K Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.10 NDS32 Features
---------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.nds32.core' feature is required for NDS32 targets.  It
should contain at least registers 'r0' through 'r10', 'r15', 'fp', 'gp',
'lp', 'sp', and 'pc'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.nds32.fpu' feature is optional.  If present, it
should contain 64-bit double-precision floating-point registers 'fd0'
through _fdN_, which should be 'fd3', 'fd7', 'fd15', or 'fd31' based on
the FPU configuration implemented.

   _Note:_ The first sixteen 64-bit double-precision floating-point
registers are overlapped with the thirty-two 32-bit single-precision
floating-point registers.  The 32-bit single-precision registers, if not
being listed explicitly, will be synthesized from halves of the
overlapping 64-bit double-precision registers.  Listing 32-bit
single-precision registers explicitly is deprecated, and the support to
it could be totally removed some day.


File: gdb.info,  Node: OpenRISC 1000 Features,  Next: PowerPC Features,  Prev: NDS32 Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.11 Openrisc 1000 Features
-----------------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.or1k.group0' feature is required for OpenRISC 1000
targets.  It should contain the 32 general purpose registers ('r0'
through 'r31'), 'ppc', 'npc' and 'sr'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: PowerPC Features,  Next: RISC-V Features,  Prev: OpenRISC 1000 Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.12 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'.  GDB will
define pseudo-registers 'v0' through 'v31' as aliases for the
corresponding 'vrX' registers.

   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-scalar registers for POWER7.
Therefore, this feature requires both 'org.gnu.gdb.power.fpu' and
'org.gnu.gdb.power.altivec'.

   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.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.ppr' feature is optional.  It should contain
the 64-bit register 'ppr'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.dscr' feature is optional.  It should contain
the 64-bit register 'dscr'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.tar' feature is optional.  It should contain
the 64-bit register 'tar'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.ebb' feature is optional.  It should contain
registers 'bescr', 'ebbhr' and 'ebbrr', all 64-bit wide.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.linux.pmu' feature is optional.  It should
contain registers 'mmcr0', 'mmcr2', 'siar', 'sdar' and 'sier', all
64-bit wide.  This is the subset of the isa 2.07 server PMU registers
provided by GNU/Linux.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.spr' feature is optional.  It should
contain registers 'tfhar', 'texasr' and 'tfiar', all 64-bit wide.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.core' feature is optional.  It should
contain the checkpointed general-purpose registers 'cr0' through 'cr31',
as well as the checkpointed registers 'clr' and 'cctr'.  These registers
may all be either 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the target.  It should
also contain the checkpointed registers 'ccr' and 'cxer', which should
both be 32-bit wide.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.fpu' feature is optional.  It should
contain the checkpointed 64-bit floating-point registers 'cf0' through
'cf31', as well as the checkpointed 64-bit register 'cfpscr'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.altivec' feature is optional.  It should
contain the checkpointed altivec registers 'cvr0' through 'cvr31', all
128-bit wide.  It should also contain the checkpointed registers 'cvscr'
and 'cvrsave', both 32-bit wide.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.vsx' feature is optional.  It should
contain registers 'cvs0h' through 'cvs31h'.  GDB will combine these
registers with the checkpointed floating point registers ('cf0' through
'cf31') and the checkpointed altivec registers ('cvr0' through 'cvr31')
to present the 128-bit wide checkpointed vector-scalar registers 'cvs0'
through 'cvs63'.  Therefore, this feature requires both
'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.altivec' and 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.fpu'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.ppr' feature is optional.  It should
contain the 64-bit checkpointed register 'cppr'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.dscr' feature is optional.  It should
contain the 64-bit checkpointed register 'cdscr'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.power.htm.tar' feature is optional.  It should
contain the 64-bit checkpointed register 'ctar'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: RISC-V Features,  Next: RX Features,  Prev: PowerPC Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.13 RISC-V Features
----------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.riscv.cpu' feature is required for RISC-V targets.  It
should contain the registers 'x0' through 'x31', and 'pc'.  Either the
architectural names ('x0', 'x1', etc) can be used, or the ABI names
('zero', 'ra', etc).

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.riscv.fpu' feature is optional.  If present, it
should contain registers 'f0' through 'f31', 'fflags', 'frm', and
'fcsr'.  As with the cpu feature, either the architectural register
names, or the ABI names can be used.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.riscv.virtual' feature is optional.  If present, it
should contain registers that are not backed by real registers on the
target, but are instead virtual, where the register value is derived
from other target state.  In many ways these are like GDBs
pseudo-registers, except implemented by the target.  Currently the only
register expected in this set is the one byte 'priv' register that
contains the target's privilege level in the least significant two bits.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.riscv.csr' feature is optional.  If present, it
should contain all of the target's standard CSRs.  Standard CSRs are
those defined in the RISC-V specification documents.  There is some
overlap between this feature and the fpu feature; the 'fflags', 'frm',
and 'fcsr' registers could be in either feature.  The expectation is
that these registers will be in the fpu feature if the target has
floating point hardware, but can be moved into the csr feature if the
target has the floating point control registers, but no other floating
point hardware.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.riscv.vector' feature is optional.  If present, it
should contain registers 'v0' through 'v31', all of which must be the
same size.


File: gdb.info,  Node: RX Features,  Next: S/390 and System z Features,  Prev: RISC-V Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.14 RX Features
------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.rx.core' feature is required for RX targets.  It should
contain the registers 'r0' through 'r15', 'usp', 'isp', 'psw', 'pc',
'intb', 'bpsw', 'bpc', 'fintv', 'fpsw', and 'acc'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: S/390 and System z Features,  Next: Sparc Features,  Prev: RX Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.15 S/390 and System z Features
----------------------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.core' feature is required for S/390 and System z
targets.  It should contain the PSW and the 16 general registers.  In
particular, System z targets should provide the 64-bit registers 'pswm',
'pswa', and 'r0' through 'r15'.  S/390 targets should provide the 32-bit
versions of these registers.  A System z target that runs in 31-bit
addressing mode should provide 32-bit versions of 'pswm' and 'pswa', as
well as the general register's upper halves 'r0h' through 'r15h', and
their lower halves 'r0l' through 'r15l'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.fpr' feature is required.  It should contain
the 64-bit registers 'f0' through 'f15', and 'fpc'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.acr' feature is required.  It should contain
the 32-bit registers 'acr0' through 'acr15'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.linux' feature is optional.  It should contain
the register 'orig_r2', which is 64-bit wide on System z targets and
32-bit otherwise.  In addition, the feature may contain the 'last_break'
register, whose width depends on the addressing mode, as well as the
'system_call' register, which is always 32-bit wide.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.tdb' feature is optional.  It should contain
the 64-bit registers 'tdb0', 'tac', 'tct', 'atia', and 'tr0' through
'tr15'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.vx' feature is optional.  It should contain
64-bit wide registers 'v0l' through 'v15l', which will be combined by
GDB with the floating point registers 'f0' through 'f15' to present the
128-bit wide vector registers 'v0' through 'v15'.  In addition, this
feature should contain the 128-bit wide vector registers 'v16' through
'v31'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.gs' feature is optional.  It should contain the
64-bit wide guarded-storage-control registers 'gsd', 'gssm', and
'gsepla'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.s390.gsbc' feature is optional.  It should contain
the 64-bit wide guarded-storage broadcast control registers 'bc_gsd',
'bc_gssm', and 'bc_gsepla'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Sparc Features,  Next: TIC6x Features,  Prev: S/390 and System z Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.16 Sparc Features
---------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.sparc.cpu' feature is required for sparc32/sparc64
targets.  It should describe the following registers:

   - 'g0' through 'g7'
   - 'o0' through 'o7'
   - 'l0' through 'l7'
   - 'i0' through 'i7'

   They may be 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the target.

   Also the 'org.gnu.gdb.sparc.fpu' feature is required for
sparc32/sparc64 targets.  It should describe the following registers:

   - 'f0' through 'f31'
   - 'f32' through 'f62' for sparc64

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.sparc.cp0' feature is required for sparc32/sparc64
targets.  It should describe the following registers:

   - 'y', 'psr', 'wim', 'tbr', 'pc', 'npc', 'fsr', and 'csr' for sparc32
   - 'pc', 'npc', 'state', 'fsr', 'fprs', and 'y' for sparc64


File: gdb.info,  Node: TIC6x Features,  Prev: Sparc Features,  Up: Standard Target Features

G.5.17 TMS320C6x Features
-------------------------

The 'org.gnu.gdb.tic6x.core' feature is required for TMS320C6x targets.
It should contain registers 'A0' through 'A15', registers 'B0' through
'B15', 'CSR' and 'PC'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.tic6x.gp' feature is optional.  It should contain
registers 'A16' through 'A31' and 'B16' through 'B31'.

   The 'org.gnu.gdb.tic6x.c6xp' feature is optional.  It should contain
registers 'TSR', 'ILC' and 'RILC'.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Operating System Information,  Next: Trace File Format,  Prev: Target Descriptions,  Up: Top

Appendix H Operating System Information
***************************************

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 retrieved 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.

* Menu:

* Process list::


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: Trace File Format,  Next: Index Section Format,  Prev: Operating System Information,  Up: Top

Appendix I 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.

'R SIZE'
     Specifies the size of a register block in bytes.  This is equal to
     the size of a 'g' packet payload in the remote protocol.  SIZE is
     an ascii decimal number.  There should be only one such line in a
     single trace file.

'status STATUS'
     Trace status.  STATUS has the same format as a 'qTStatus' remote
     packet reply.  There should be only one such line in a single trace
     file.

'tp PAYLOAD'
     Tracepoint definition.  The PAYLOAD has the same format as
     'qTfP'/'qTsP' remote packet reply payload.  A single tracepoint may
     take multiple lines of definition, corresponding to the multiple
     reply packets.

'tsv PAYLOAD'
     Trace state variable definition.  The PAYLOAD has the same format
     as 'qTfV'/'qTsV' remote packet reply payload.  A single variable
     may take multiple lines of definition, corresponding to the
     multiple reply packets.

'tdesc PAYLOAD'
     Target description in XML format.  The PAYLOAD is a single line of
     the XML file.  All such lines should be concatenated together to
     get the original XML file.  This file is in the same format as
     'qXfer' 'features' payload, and corresponds to the main
     'target.xml' file.  Includes are not allowed.

   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, 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: Index Section Format,  Next: Debuginfod,  Prev: Trace File Format,  Up: Top

Appendix J '.gdb_index' section format
**************************************

This section documents the index section that is created by 'save
gdb-index' (*note Index Files::).  The index section is DWARF-specific;
some knowledge of DWARF is assumed in this description.

   The mapped index file format is designed to be directly 'mmap'able on
any architecture.  In most cases, a datum is represented using a
little-endian 32-bit integer value, called an 'offset_type'.  Big endian
machines must byte-swap the values before using them.  Exceptions to
this rule are noted.  The data is laid out such that alignment is always
respected.

   A mapped index consists of several areas, laid out in order.

  1. The file header.  This is a sequence of values, of 'offset_type'
     unless otherwise noted:

       1. The version number, currently 9.  Versions 1, 2 and 3 are
          obsolete.  Version 4 uses a different hashing function from
          versions 5 and 6.  Version 6 includes symbols for inlined
          functions, whereas versions 4 and 5 do not.  Version 7 adds
          attributes to the CU indices in the symbol table.  Version 8
          specifies that symbols from DWARF type units
          ('DW_TAG_type_unit') refer to the type unit's symbol table and
          not the compilation unit ('DW_TAG_comp_unit') using the type.
          Version 9 adds the name and the language of the main function
          to the index.

          GDB will only read version 4, 5, or 6 indices by specifying
          'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'.  GDB has a workaround
          for potentially broken version 7 indices so it is currently
          not flagged as deprecated.

       2. The offset, from the start of the file, of the CU list.

       3. The offset, from the start of the file, of the types CU list.
          Note that this area can be empty, in which case this offset
          will be equal to the next offset.

       4. The offset, from the start of the file, of the address area.

       5. The offset, from the start of the file, of the symbol table.

       6. The offset, from the start of the file, of the shortcut table.

       7. The offset, from the start of the file, of the constant pool.

  2. The CU list.  This is a sequence of pairs of 64-bit little-endian
     values, sorted by the CU offset.  The first element in each pair is
     the offset of a CU in the '.debug_info' section.  The second
     element in each pair is the length of that CU. References to a CU
     elsewhere in the map are done using a CU index, which is just the
     0-based index into this table.  Note that if there are type CUs,
     then conceptually CUs and type CUs form a single list for the
     purposes of CU indices.

  3. The types CU list.  This is a sequence of triplets of 64-bit
     little-endian values.  In a triplet, the first value is the CU
     offset, the second value is the type offset in the CU, and the
     third value is the type signature.  The types CU list is not
     sorted.

  4. The address area.  The address area consists of a sequence of
     address entries.  Each address entry has three elements:

       1. The low address.  This is a 64-bit little-endian value.

       2. The high address.  This is a 64-bit little-endian value.  Like
          'DW_AT_high_pc', the value is one byte beyond the end.

       3. The CU index.  This is an 'offset_type' value.

  5. The symbol table.  This is an open-addressed hash table.  The size
     of the hash table is always a power of 2.

     Each slot in the hash table consists of a pair of 'offset_type'
     values.  The first value is the offset of the symbol's name in the
     constant pool.  The second value is the offset of the CU vector in
     the constant pool.

     If both values are 0, then this slot in the hash table is empty.
     This is ok because while 0 is a valid constant pool index, it
     cannot be a valid index for both a string and a CU vector.

     The hash value for a table entry is computed by applying an
     iterative hash function to the symbol's name.  Starting with an
     initial value of 'r = 0', each (unsigned) character 'c' in the
     string is incorporated into the hash using the formula depending on
     the index version:

     Version 4
          The formula is 'r = r * 67 + c - 113'.

     Versions 5 to 7
          The formula is 'r = r * 67 + tolower (c) - 113'.

     The terminating '\0' is not incorporated into the hash.

     The step size used in the hash table is computed via '((hash * 17)
     & (size - 1)) | 1', where 'hash' is the hash value, and 'size' is
     the size of the hash table.  The step size is used to find the next
     candidate slot when handling a hash collision.

     The names of C++ symbols in the hash table are canonicalized.  We
     don't currently have a simple description of the canonicalization
     algorithm; if you intend to create new index sections, you must
     read the code.

  6. The shortcut table This is a data structure with the following
     fields:

     Language of main
          An 'offset_type' value indicating the language of the main
          function as a 'DW_LANG_' constant.  This value will be zero if
          main function information is not present.

     Name of main
          An 'offset_type' value indicating the offset of the main
          function's name in the constant pool.  This value must be
          ignored if the value for the language of main is zero.

  7. The constant pool.  This is simply a bunch of bytes.  It is
     organized so that alignment is correct: CU vectors are stored
     first, followed by strings.

     A CU vector in the constant pool is a sequence of 'offset_type'
     values.  The first value is the number of CU indices in the vector.
     Each subsequent value is the index and symbol attributes of a CU in
     the CU list.  This element in the hash table is used to indicate
     which CUs define the symbol and how the symbol is used.  See below
     for the format of each CU index+attributes entry.

     A string in the constant pool is zero-terminated.

   Attributes were added to CU index values in '.gdb_index' version 7.
If a symbol has multiple uses within a CU then there is one CU
index+attributes value for each use.

   The format of each CU index+attributes entry is as follows (bit 0 =
LSB):

Bits 0-23
     This is the index of the CU in the CU list.
Bits 24-27
     These bits are reserved for future purposes and must be zero.
Bits 28-30
     The kind of the symbol in the CU.

     0
          This value is reserved and should not be used.  By reserving
          zero the full 'offset_type' value is backwards compatible with
          previous versions of the index.
     1
          The symbol is a type.
     2
          The symbol is a variable or an enum value.
     3
          The symbol is a function.
     4
          Any other kind of symbol.
     5,6,7
          These values are reserved.

Bit 31
     This bit is zero if the value is global and one if it is static.

     The determination of whether a symbol is global or static is
     complicated.  The authoritative reference is the file
     'dwarf2read.c' in GDB sources.

   This pseudo-code describes the computation of a symbol's kind and
global/static attributes in the index.

     is_external = get_attribute (die, DW_AT_external);
     language = get_attribute (cu_die, DW_AT_language);
     switch (die->tag)
       {
       case DW_TAG_typedef:
       case DW_TAG_base_type:
       case DW_TAG_subrange_type:
         kind = TYPE;
         is_static = 1;
         break;
       case DW_TAG_enumerator:
         kind = VARIABLE;
         is_static = language != CPLUS;
         break;
       case DW_TAG_subprogram:
         kind = FUNCTION;
         is_static = ! (is_external || language == ADA);
         break;
       case DW_TAG_constant:
         kind = VARIABLE;
         is_static = ! is_external;
         break;
       case DW_TAG_variable:
         kind = VARIABLE;
         is_static = ! is_external;
         break;
       case DW_TAG_namespace:
         kind = TYPE;
         is_static = 0;
         break;
       case DW_TAG_class_type:
       case DW_TAG_interface_type:
       case DW_TAG_structure_type:
       case DW_TAG_union_type:
       case DW_TAG_enumeration_type:
         kind = TYPE;
         is_static = language != CPLUS;
         break;
       default:
         assert (0);
       }


File: gdb.info,  Node: Debuginfod,  Next: Man Pages,  Prev: Index Section Format,  Up: Top

Appendix K Download debugging resources with Debuginfod
*******************************************************

'debuginfod' is an HTTP server for distributing ELF, DWARF and source
files.

   With the 'debuginfod' client library, 'libdebuginfod', GDB can query
servers using the build IDs associated with missing debug info,
executables and source files in order to download them on demand.

   For instructions on building GDB with 'libdebuginfod', *note
-with-debuginfod: Configure Options.  'debuginfod' is packaged with
'elfutils', starting with version 0.178.  See
<https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html> for more information
regarding 'debuginfod'.

* Menu:

* Debuginfod Settings::         Configuring debuginfod with GDB


File: gdb.info,  Node: Debuginfod Settings,  Up: Debuginfod

K.1 Debuginfod Settings
=======================

GDB provides the following commands for configuring 'debuginfod'.

'set debuginfod enabled'
'set debuginfod enabled on'
     GDB may query 'debuginfod' servers for missing debug info and
     source files.  GDB may also download individual ELF/DWARF sections
     such as '.gdb_index' to help reduce the total amount of data
     downloaded from 'debuginfod' servers; this can be controlled by
     'maint set debuginfod download-sections' (*note maint set
     debuginfod download-sections: Maintenance Commands.).

'set debuginfod enabled off'
     GDB will not attempt to query 'debuginfod' servers when missing
     debug info or source files.  By default, 'debuginfod enabled' is
     set to 'off' for non-interactive sessions.

'set debuginfod enabled ask'
     GDB will prompt the user to enable or disable 'debuginfod' before
     attempting to perform the next query.  By default, 'debuginfod
     enabled' is set to 'ask' for interactive sessions.

'show debuginfod enabled'
     Display whether 'debuginfod enabled' is set to 'on', 'off' or
     'ask'.

'set debuginfod urls'
'set debuginfod urls URLS'
     Set the space-separated list of URLs that 'debuginfod' will attempt
     to query.  Only 'http://', 'https://' and 'file://' protocols
     should be used.  The default value of 'debuginfod urls' is copied
     from the DEBUGINFOD_URLS environment variable.

'show debuginfod urls'
     Display the list of URLs that 'debuginfod' will attempt to query.

'set debuginfod verbose'
'set debuginfod verbose N'
     Enable or disable 'debuginfod'-related output.  Use a non-zero
     value to enable and '0' to disable.  'debuginfod' output is shown
     by default.

'show debuginfod verbose'
     Show the current verbosity setting.


File: gdb.info,  Node: Man Pages,  Next: Copying,  Prev: Debuginfod,  Up: Top

Appendix L Manual pages
***********************

* Menu:

* gdb man::                     The GNU Debugger man page
* gdbserver man::               Remote Server for the GNU Debugger man page
* gcore man::                   Generate a core file of a running program
* gstack man::                  Print a stack trace of a running program
* gdbinit man::                 gdbinit scripts
* gdb-add-index man::           Add index files to speed up GDB


File: gdb.info,  Node: gdb man,  Next: gdbserver man,  Up: Man Pages

gdb man
=======

gdb [OPTIONS] [PROG|PROG PROCID|PROG CORE]

   The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what is
going on "inside" another program while it executes - or what another
program was doing at the moment it crashed.

   GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of
these) to help you catch bugs in the act:

   * Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its
     behavior.

   * Make your program stop on specified conditions.

   * Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.

   * Change things in your program, so you can experiment with
     correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.

   You can use GDB to debug programs written in C, C++, Fortran and
Modula-2.

   GDB is invoked with the shell command 'gdb'.  Once started, it reads
commands from the terminal until you tell it to exit with the GDB
command 'quit' or 'exit'.  You can get online help from GDB itself by
using the command 'help'.

   You can run 'gdb' with no arguments or options; but the most usual
way to start GDB is with one argument or two, specifying an executable
program as the argument:

     gdb program

   You can also start with both an executable program and a core file
specified:

     gdb program core

   You can, instead, specify a process ID as a second argument or use
option '-p', if you want to debug a running process:

     gdb program 1234
     gdb -p 1234

would attach GDB to process '1234'.  With option '-p' you can omit the
PROGRAM filename.

   Here are some of the most frequently needed GDB commands:

'break [FILE:][FUNCTION|LINE]'
     Set a breakpoint at FUNCTION or LINE (in FILE).

'run [ARGLIST]'
     Start your program (with ARGLIST, if specified).

'bt'
     Backtrace: display the program stack.

'print EXPR'
     Display the value of an expression.

'c'
     Continue running your program (after stopping, e.g. at a
     breakpoint).

'next'
     Execute next program line (after stopping); step _over_ any
     function calls in the line.

'edit [FILE:]FUNCTION'
     look at the program line where it is presently stopped.

'list [FILE:]FUNCTION'
     type the text of the program in the vicinity of where it is
     presently stopped.

'step'
     Execute next program line (after stopping); step _into_ any
     function calls in the line.

'help [NAME]'
     Show information about GDB command NAME, or general information
     about using GDB.

'quit'
'exit'
     Exit from GDB.

   Any arguments other than options specify an executable file and core
file (or process ID); that is, the first argument encountered with no
associated option flag is equivalent to a '--se' option, and the second,
if any, is equivalent to a '-c' option if it's the name of a file.  Many
options have both long and abbreviated forms; both are shown here.  The
long forms are also recognized if you truncate them, so long as enough
of the option is present to be unambiguous.

   The abbreviated forms are shown here with '-' and long forms are
shown with '--' to reflect how they are shown in '--help'.  However, GDB
recognizes all of the following conventions for most options:

'--option=VALUE'
'--option VALUE'
'-option=VALUE'
'-option VALUE'
'--o=VALUE'
'--o VALUE'
'-o=VALUE'
'-o VALUE'

   All the options and command line arguments you give are processed in
sequential order.  The order makes a difference when the '-x' option is
used.

'--help'
'-h'
     List all options, with brief explanations.

'--symbols=FILE'
'-s FILE'
     Read symbol table from FILE.

'--write'
     Enable writing into executable and core files.

'--exec=FILE'
'-e FILE'
     Use FILE as the executable file to execute when appropriate, and
     for examining pure data in conjunction with a core dump.

'--se=FILE'
     Read symbol table from FILE and use it as the executable file.

'--core=FILE'
'-c FILE'
     Use FILE as a core dump to examine.

'--command=FILE'
'-x FILE'
     Execute GDB commands from FILE.

'--eval-command=COMMAND'
'-ex COMMAND'
     Execute given GDB COMMAND.

'--init-eval-command=COMMAND'
'-iex'
     Execute GDB COMMAND before loading the inferior.

'--directory=DIRECTORY'
'-d DIRECTORY'
     Add DIRECTORY to the path to search for source files.

'--nh'
     Do not execute commands from '~/.config/gdb/gdbinit', '~/.gdbinit',
     '~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit', or '~/.gdbearlyinit'

'--nx'
'-n'
     Do not execute commands from any '.gdbinit' or '.gdbearlyinit'
     initialization files.

'--quiet'
'--silent'
'-q'
     "Quiet".  Do not print the introductory and copyright messages.
     These messages are also suppressed in batch mode.

'--batch'
     Run in batch mode.  Exit with status '0' after processing all the
     command files specified with '-x' (and '.gdbinit', if not
     inhibited).  Exit with nonzero status if an error occurs in
     executing the GDB commands in the command files.

     Batch mode may be useful for running GDB as a filter, for example
     to download and run a program on another computer; in order to make
     this more useful, the message

          Program exited normally.

     (which is ordinarily issued whenever a program running under GDB
     control terminates) is not issued when running in batch mode.

'--batch-silent'
     Run in batch mode, just like '--batch', but totally silent.  All
     GDB output is suppressed (stderr is unaffected).  This is much
     quieter than '--silent' and would be useless for an interactive
     session.

     This is particularly useful when using targets that give 'Loading
     section' messages, for example.

     Note that targets that give their output via GDB, as opposed to
     writing directly to 'stdout', will also be made silent.

'--args PROG [ARGLIST]'
     Change interpretation of command line so that arguments following
     this option are passed as arguments to the inferior.  As an
     example, take the following command:

          gdb ./a.out -q

     It would start GDB with '-q', not printing the introductory
     message.  On the other hand, using:

          gdb --args ./a.out -q

     starts GDB with the introductory message, and passes the option to
     the inferior.

'--pid=PID'
     Attach GDB to an already running program, with the PID PID.

'--tui'
     Open the terminal user interface.

'--readnow'
     Read all symbols from the given symfile on the first access.

'--readnever'
     Do not read symbol files.

'--return-child-result'
     GDB's exit code will be the same as the child's exit code.

'--configuration'
     Print details about GDB configuration and then exit.

'--version'
     Print version information and then exit.

'--cd=DIRECTORY'
     Run GDB using DIRECTORY as its working directory, instead of the
     current directory.

'--data-directory=DIRECTORY'
'-D'
     Run GDB using DIRECTORY as its data directory.  The data directory
     is where GDB searches for its auxiliary files.

'--fullname'
'-f'
     Emacs sets this option when it runs GDB as a subprocess.  It tells
     GDB to output the full file name and line number in a standard,
     recognizable fashion each time a stack frame is displayed (which
     includes each time the program stops).  This recognizable format
     looks like two '\032' characters, followed by the file name, line
     number and character position separated by colons, and a newline.
     The Emacs-to-GDB interface program uses the two '\032' characters
     as a signal to display the source code for the frame.

'-b BAUDRATE'
     Set the line speed (baud rate or bits per second) of any serial
     interface used by GDB for remote debugging.

'-l TIMEOUT'
     Set timeout, in seconds, for remote debugging.

'--tty=DEVICE'
     Run using DEVICE for your program's standard input and output.


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gdbserver man
=============

gdbserver COMM PROG [ARGS...]

gdbserver -attach COMM PID

gdbserver -multi COMM

   'gdbserver' is a program that allows you to run GDB on a different
machine than the one which is running the program being debugged.

Usage (server (target) side)
----------------------------

First, you need to have a copy of the program you want to debug put onto
the target system.  The program can be stripped to save space if needed,
as 'gdbserver' doesn't care about symbols.  All symbol handling is taken
care of by the GDB running on the host system.

   To use the server, you log on to the target system, and run the
'gdbserver' program.  You must tell it (a) how to communicate with GDB,
(b) the name of your program, and (c) its arguments.  The general syntax
is:

     target> gdbserver COMM PROGRAM [ARGS ...]

   For example, using a serial port, you might say:

     target> gdbserver /dev/com1 emacs foo.txt

   This tells 'gdbserver' to debug emacs with an argument of foo.txt,
and to communicate with GDB via '/dev/com1'.  'gdbserver' now waits
patiently for the host GDB to communicate with it.

   To use a TCP connection, you could say:

     target> gdbserver host:2345 emacs foo.txt

   This says pretty much the same thing as the last example, except that
we are going to communicate with the 'host' GDB via TCP. The 'host:2345'
argument means that we are expecting to see a TCP connection from 'host'
to local TCP port 2345.  (Currently, the 'host' part is ignored.)  You
can choose any number you want for the port number as long as it does
not conflict with any existing TCP ports on the target system.  This
same port number must be used in the host GDBs 'target remote' command,
which will be described shortly.  Note that if you chose a port number
that conflicts with another service, 'gdbserver' will print an error
message and exit.

   'gdbserver' can also attach to running programs.  This is
accomplished via the '--attach' argument.  The syntax is:

     target> gdbserver --attach COMM PID

   PID is the process ID of a currently running process.  It isn't
necessary to point 'gdbserver' at a binary for the running process.

   To start 'gdbserver' without supplying an initial command to run or
process ID to attach, use the '--multi' command line option.  In such
case you should connect using 'target extended-remote' to start the
program you want to debug.

     target> gdbserver --multi COMM

Usage (host side)
-----------------

You need an unstripped copy of the target program on your host system,
since GDB needs to examine its symbol tables and such.  Start up GDB as
you normally would, with the target program as the first argument.  (You
may need to use the '--baud' option if the serial line is running at
anything except 9600 baud.)  That is 'gdb TARGET-PROG', or 'gdb --baud
BAUD TARGET-PROG'.  After that, the only new command you need to know
about is 'target remote' (or 'target extended-remote').  Its argument is
either a device name (usually a serial device, like '/dev/ttyb'), or a
'HOST:PORT' descriptor.  For example:

     (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyb

communicates with the server via serial line '/dev/ttyb', and:

     (gdb) target remote the-target:2345

communicates via a TCP connection to port 2345 on host 'the-target',
where you previously started up 'gdbserver' with the same port number.
Note that for TCP connections, you must start up 'gdbserver' prior to
using the 'target remote' command, otherwise you may get an error that
looks something like 'Connection refused'.

   'gdbserver' can also debug multiple inferiors at once, described in
*note Inferiors Connections and Programs::.  In such case use the
'extended-remote' GDB command variant:

     (gdb) target extended-remote the-target:2345

   The 'gdbserver' option '--multi' may or may not be used in such case.

   There are three different modes for invoking 'gdbserver':

   * Debug a specific program specified by its program name:

          gdbserver COMM PROG [ARGS...]

     The COMM parameter specifies how should the server communicate with
     GDB; it is either a device name (to use a serial line), a TCP port
     number (':1234'), or '-' or 'stdio' to use stdin/stdout of
     'gdbserver'.  Specify the name of the program to debug in PROG.
     Any remaining arguments will be passed to the program verbatim.
     When the program exits, GDB will close the connection, and
     'gdbserver' will exit.

   * Debug a specific program by specifying the process ID of a running
     program:

          gdbserver --attach COMM PID

     The COMM parameter is as described above.  Supply the process ID of
     a running program in PID; GDB will do everything else.  Like with
     the previous mode, when the process PID exits, GDB will close the
     connection, and 'gdbserver' will exit.

   * Multi-process mode - debug more than one program/process:

          gdbserver --multi COMM

     In this mode, GDB can instruct 'gdbserver' which command(s) to run.
     Unlike the other 2 modes, GDB will not close the connection when a
     process being debugged exits, so you can debug several processes in
     the same session.

   In each of the modes you may specify these options:

'--help'
     List all options, with brief explanations.

'--version'
     This option causes 'gdbserver' to print its version number and
     exit.

'--attach'
     'gdbserver' will attach to a running program.  The syntax is:

          target> gdbserver --attach COMM PID

     PID is the process ID of a currently running process.  It isn't
     necessary to point 'gdbserver' at a binary for the running process.

'--multi'
     To start 'gdbserver' without supplying an initial command to run or
     process ID to attach, use this command line option.  Then you can
     connect using 'target extended-remote' and start the program you
     want to debug.  The syntax is:

          target> gdbserver --multi COMM

'--debug[=option1,option2,...]'
     Instruct 'gdbserver' to display extra status information about the
     debugging process.  This option is intended for 'gdbserver'
     development and for bug reports to the developers.

     Each OPTION is the name of a component for which debugging should
     be enabled.  The list of possible options is 'all', 'threads',
     'event-loop', 'remote'.  The special option 'all' enables all
     components.  The option list is processed left to right, and an
     option can be prefixed with the '-' character to disable output for
     that component, so you could write:

          target> gdbserver --debug=all,-event-loop

     to turn on debug output for all components except 'event-loop'.  If
     no options are passed to '--debug' then this is treated as
     equivalent to '--debug=threads'.  This could change in future
     releases of 'gdbserver'.

'--debug-file=FILENAME'
     Instruct 'gdbserver' to send any debug output to the given
     FILENAME.  This option is intended for 'gdbserver' development and
     for bug reports to the developers.

'--debug-format=option1[,option2,...]'
     Instruct 'gdbserver' to include extra information in each line of
     debugging output.  *Note Other Command-Line Arguments for
     gdbserver::.

'--wrapper'
     Specify a wrapper to launch programs for debugging.  The option
     should be followed by the name of the wrapper, then any
     command-line arguments to pass to the wrapper, then '--' indicating
     the end of the wrapper arguments.

'--once'
     By default, 'gdbserver' keeps the listening TCP port open, so that
     additional connections are possible.  However, if you start
     'gdbserver' with the '--once' option, it will stop listening for
     any further connection attempts after connecting to the first GDB
     session.


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gcore
=====

gcore [-v | -version] [-h | -help] [-a] [-o PREFIX] [-d DIRECTORY]
      PID1 [PID2...PIDN]

   Generate core dumps of one or more running programs with process IDs
PID1, PID2, etc.  A core file produced by 'gcore' is equivalent to one
produced by the kernel when the process crashes (and when 'ulimit -c'
was used to set up an appropriate core dump limit).  However, unlike
after a crash, after 'gcore' finishes its job the program remains
running without any change.

'-a'
     Dump all memory mappings.  The actual effect of this option depends
     on the Operating System.  On GNU/Linux, it will disable
     'use-coredump-filter' (*note set use-coredump-filter::) and enable
     'dump-excluded-mappings' (*note set dump-excluded-mappings::).

'-o PREFIX'
     The optional argument PREFIX specifies the prefix to be used when
     composing the file names of the core dumps.  The file name is
     composed as 'PREFIX.PID', where PID is the process ID of the
     running program being analyzed by 'gcore'.  If not specified,
     PREFIX defaults to CORE.

'-d DIRECTORY'
     Use DIRECTORY as the data directory when invoking GDB for running
     the gcore command.  This argument is optional.

'--help'
'-h'
     List all options, with brief explanations.

'--version'
'-v'
     Print version information and then exit.


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gstack
======

gstack [-h | -help] [-v | -version] PID

   Print a stack trace of a running program with process ID PID.  If the
process is multi-threaded, 'gstack' outputs backtraces for every thread
which exists in the process.

   The script invokes GDB, attaches to the given process ID, prints the
stack trace, and detaches from the process.

   'gstack' exits with non-zero status if 'gdb' was unable to attach to
the given process ID for any reason, such as a non-existent process ID
or insufficient privileges to attach to the process.

'--help'
'-h'
     List all options, with brief explanations.

'--version'
'-v'
     Print version information and then exit.

'AWK'
     Full file name for an Awk interpreter to use.  If not set, 'PATH'
     will be searched for an 'awk' program.

'GDB'
     Full file name for a GDB executable to use to generate stack
     backtraces.  If not set, 'PATH' will be searched for a 'gdb'
     program.

'GDBARGS'
     Optional arguments to be passed to the 'gdb' program.


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gdbinit
=======



~/.config/gdb/gdbinit

~/.gdbinit

./.gdbinit

   These files contain GDB commands to automatically execute during GDB
startup.  The lines of contents are canned sequences of commands,
described in *note Sequences::.

   Please read more in *note Startup::.

'(not enabled with --with-system-gdbinit during compilation)'
     System-wide initialization file.  It is executed unless user
     specified GDB option '-nx' or '-n'.  See more in
'(not enabled with --with-system-gdbinit-dir during compilation)'
     System-wide initialization directory.  All files in this directory
     are executed on startup unless user specified GDB option '-nx' or
     '-n', as long as they have a recognized file extension.  See more
     in *note System-wide configuration::.

'~/.config/gdb/gdbinit or ~/.gdbinit'
     User initialization file.  It is executed unless user specified GDB
     options '-nx', '-n' or '-nh'.

'.gdbinit'
     Initialization file for current directory.  It may need to be
     enabled with GDB security command 'set auto-load local-gdbinit'.
     See more in *note Init File in the Current Directory::.


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gdb-add-index
=============

gdb-add-index [-h | -help] [-v | -version] [-dwarf-5] FILENAME

   When GDB finds a symbol file, it scans the symbols in the file in
order to construct an internal symbol table.  This lets most GDB
operations work quickly-at the cost of a delay early on.  For large
programs, this delay can be quite lengthy, so GDB provides a way to
build an index, which speeds up startup.

   To determine whether a file contains such an index, use the command
'readelf -S filename': the index is stored in a section named
'.gdb_index' (pre-DWARF 5) or '.debug_names' and '.debug_str' (DWARF 5).
Indexes can only be produced on systems which use ELF binaries and DWARF
debug information (i.e., sections named '.debug_*').

   By default 'gdb-add-index' will add a pre-DWARF 5 '.gdb_index'
section to FILENAME.  With '--dwarf-5' the DWARF 5 section
'.debug_names' is added instead.

   FILENAME must be writable.

   'gdb-add-index' uses GDB, 'objcopy', and 'readelf' found in the
'PATH' environment variable.  If you want to use different versions of
these programs, you can specify them through the appropriate environment
variables (see below).

   'gdb-add-index' exits with status 0 if it succeeds in creating the
index for FILENAME or greater than 0 if an error occurs.

   See more in *note Index Files::.

'--dwarf-5'
     Add DWARF 5 sections instead of previous '.gdb_index' section.

'--help'
'-h'
     List all options, with brief explanations.

'--version'
'-v'
     Print version information and then exit.

'GDB'
     Full file name of the 'gdb' program to use for index generation.
     If not set, the 'PATH' will be searched for a 'gdb' program.

'OBJCOPY'
     Full file name of the 'objcopy' program to use to copy section
     information into the given file.  If not set, the 'PATH' will be
     searched for a 'objcopy' program.

'READELF'
     Full file name of the 'readelf' program to use to inspect
     properties of the given file.  If not set, the 'PATH' will be
     searched for a 'readelf' program.


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Appendix M GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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                        Version 3, 29 June 2007

     Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>

     Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
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Preamble
========

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Appendix N GNU Free Documentation License
*****************************************

                     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
     of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

  0. PREAMBLE

     The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
     functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to
     assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
     with or without modifying it, either commercially or
     noncommercially.  Secondarily, this License preserves for the
     author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not
     being considered responsible for modifications made by others.

     This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
     works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense.
     It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
     license designed for free software.

     We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for
     free software, because free software needs free documentation: a
     free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms
     that the software does.  But this License is not limited to
     software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless
     of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book.  We
     recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is
     instruction or reference.

  1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

     This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium,
     that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can
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     the license if you copy, modify or distribute the work in a way
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     A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
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     modifications and/or translated into another language.

     A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section
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     publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall
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     The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose
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     If a section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it
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     The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are
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     A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
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     The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
     plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the
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     The "publisher" means any person or entity that distributes copies
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     A section "Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit of the Document
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     To "Preserve the Title" of such a section when you modify the
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  2. VERBATIM COPYING

     You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
     commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
     copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License
     applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you
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     you may accept compensation in exchange for copies.  If you
     distribute a large enough number of copies you must also follow the
     conditions in section 3.

     You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above,
     and you may publicly display copies.

  3. COPYING IN QUANTITY

     If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly
     have printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and
     the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must
     enclose the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all
     these Cover Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and
     Back-Cover Texts on the back cover.  Both covers must also clearly
     and legibly identify you as the publisher of these copies.  The
     front cover must present the full title with all words of the title
     equally prominent and visible.  You may add other material on the
     covers in addition.  Copying with changes limited to the covers, as
     long as they preserve the title of the Document and satisfy these
     conditions, can be treated as verbatim copying in other respects.

     If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
     legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
     reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto
     adjacent pages.

     If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document
     numbering more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable
     Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with
     each Opaque copy a computer-network location from which the general
     network-using public has access to download using public-standard
     network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free
     of added material.  If you use the latter option, you must take
     reasonably prudent steps, when you begin distribution of Opaque
     copies in quantity, to ensure that this Transparent copy will
     remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one
     year after the last time you distribute an Opaque copy (directly or
     through your agents or retailers) of that edition to the public.

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ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
====================================================

To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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       or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
       with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
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   If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover
Texts, replace the "with...Texts."  line with this:

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   If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
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   If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
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