/* GDB Notifications to Observers. Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GDB. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ /* An observer is an entity who is interested in being notified when GDB reaches certain states, or certain events occur in GDB. The entity being observed is called the Subject. To receive notifications, the observer attaches a callback to the subject. One subject can have several observers. This file implements an internal generic low-level event notification mechanism based on the Observer paradigm described in the book "Design Patterns". This generic event notification mechansim is then re-used to implement the exported high-level notification management routines for all possible notifications. The current implementation of the generic observer provides support for contextual data. This contextual data is given to the subject when attaching the callback. In return, the subject will provide this contextual data back to the observer as a parameter of the callback. FIXME: The current support for the contextual data is only partial, as it lacks a mechanism that would deallocate this data when the callback is detached. This is not a problem so far, as this contextual data is only used internally to hold a function pointer. Later on, if a certain observer needs to provide support for user-level contextual data, then the generic notification mechanism will need need to be enhanced to allow the observer to provide a routine to deallocate the data when attaching the callback. This file is currently maintained by hand, but the long term plan if the number of different notifications starts growing is to create a new script (observer.sh) that would generate this file, and the associated documentation. */ #include "defs.h" #include "observer.h" #include "command.h" #include "gdbcmd.h" static int observer_debug; static void show_observer_debug (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty, struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value) { fprintf_filtered (file, _("Observer debugging is %s.\n"), value); } /* The internal generic observer. */ typedef void (generic_observer_notification_ftype) (const void *data, const void *args); struct observer { generic_observer_notification_ftype *notify; /* No memory management needed for the following field for now. */ void *data; }; /* A list of observers, maintained by the subject. A subject is actually represented by its list of observers. */ struct observer_list { struct observer_list *next; struct observer *observer; }; /* Allocate a struct observer_list, intended to be used as a node in the list of observers maintained by a subject. */ static struct observer_list * xalloc_observer_list_node (void) { struct observer_list *node = XMALLOC (struct observer_list); node->observer = XMALLOC (struct observer); return node; } /* The opposite of xalloc_observer_list_node, frees the memory for the given node. */ static void xfree_observer_list_node (struct observer_list *node) { xfree (node->observer); xfree (node); } /* Attach the callback NOTIFY to a SUBJECT. The DATA is also stored, in order for the subject to provide it back to the observer during a notification. */ static struct observer * generic_observer_attach (struct observer_list **subject, generic_observer_notification_ftype * notify, void *data) { struct observer_list *observer_list = xalloc_observer_list_node (); observer_list->next = *subject; observer_list->observer->notify = notify; observer_list->observer->data = data; *subject = observer_list; return observer_list->observer; } /* Remove the given OBSERVER from the SUBJECT. Once detached, OBSERVER should no longer be used, as it is no longer valid. */ static void generic_observer_detach (struct observer_list **subject, const struct observer *observer) { struct observer_list *previous_node = NULL; struct observer_list *current_node = *subject; while (current_node != NULL) { if (current_node->observer == observer) { if (previous_node != NULL) previous_node->next = current_node->next; else *subject = current_node->next; xfree_observer_list_node (current_node); return; } previous_node = current_node; current_node = current_node->next; } /* We should never reach this point. However, this should not be a very serious error, so simply report a warning to the user. */ warning (_("Failed to detach observer")); } /* Send a notification to all the observers of SUBJECT. ARGS is passed to all observers as an argument to the notification callback. */ static void generic_observer_notify (struct observer_list *subject, const void *args) { struct observer_list *current_node = subject; while (current_node != NULL) { (*current_node->observer->notify) (current_node->observer->data, args); current_node = current_node->next; } } /* The following code is only used to unit-test the observers from our testsuite. DO NOT USE IT within observer.c (or anywhere else for that matter)! */ /* If we define these variables and functions as `static', the compiler will optimize them out. */ int observer_test_first_observer = 0; int observer_test_second_observer = 0; int observer_test_third_observer = 0; void observer_test_first_notification_function (int arg) { observer_test_first_observer++; } void observer_test_second_notification_function (int arg) { observer_test_second_observer++; } void observer_test_third_notification_function (int arg) { observer_test_third_observer++; } extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_observer; /* -Wmissing-prototypes */ void _initialize_observer (void) { add_setshow_zinteger_cmd ("observer", class_maintenance, &observer_debug, _("\ Set observer debugging."), _("\ Show observer debugging."), _("\ When non-zero, observer debugging is enabled."), NULL, show_observer_debug, &setdebuglist, &showdebuglist); } #include "observer.inc"