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1*b725ae77Skettenis /* Definitions used by the GDB event loop.
2*b725ae77Skettenis    Copyright 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3*b725ae77Skettenis    Written by Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com> of Cygnus Solutions.
4*b725ae77Skettenis 
5*b725ae77Skettenis    This file is part of GDB.
6*b725ae77Skettenis 
7*b725ae77Skettenis    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8*b725ae77Skettenis    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9*b725ae77Skettenis    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10*b725ae77Skettenis    (at your option) any later version.
11*b725ae77Skettenis 
12*b725ae77Skettenis    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13*b725ae77Skettenis    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14*b725ae77Skettenis    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15*b725ae77Skettenis    GNU General Public License for more details.
16*b725ae77Skettenis 
17*b725ae77Skettenis    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18*b725ae77Skettenis    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19*b725ae77Skettenis    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20*b725ae77Skettenis    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
21*b725ae77Skettenis 
22*b725ae77Skettenis /* An event loop listens for events from multiple event sources. When
23*b725ae77Skettenis    an event arrives, it is queued and processed by calling the
24*b725ae77Skettenis    appropriate event handler. The event loop then continues to listen
25*b725ae77Skettenis    for more events. An event loop completes when there are no event
26*b725ae77Skettenis    sources to listen on.  External event sources can be plugged into
27*b725ae77Skettenis    the loop.
28*b725ae77Skettenis 
29*b725ae77Skettenis    There are 3 main components:
30*b725ae77Skettenis    - a list of file descriptors to be monitored, GDB_NOTIFIER.
31*b725ae77Skettenis    - a list of events that have occurred, EVENT_QUEUE.
32*b725ae77Skettenis    - a list of signal handling functions, SIGHANDLER_LIST.
33*b725ae77Skettenis 
34*b725ae77Skettenis    GDB_NOTIFIER keeps track of the event sources. Event sources for
35*b725ae77Skettenis    gdb are currently the UI and the target.  Gdb communicates with the
36*b725ae77Skettenis    command line user interface via the readline library and usually
37*b725ae77Skettenis    communicates with remote targets via a serial port. Serial ports
38*b725ae77Skettenis    are represented in GDB as file descriptors and select/poll calls.
39*b725ae77Skettenis    For native targets instead, the communication consists of calls to
40*b725ae77Skettenis    ptrace and waits (via signals) or calls to poll/select (via file
41*b725ae77Skettenis    descriptors). In the current gdb, the code handling events related
42*b725ae77Skettenis    to the target resides in the wait_for_inferior function and in
43*b725ae77Skettenis    various target specific files (*-tdep.c).
44*b725ae77Skettenis 
45*b725ae77Skettenis    EVENT_QUEUE keeps track of the events that have happened during the
46*b725ae77Skettenis    last iteration of the event loop, and need to be processed.  An
47*b725ae77Skettenis    event is represented by a procedure to be invoked in order to
48*b725ae77Skettenis    process the event.  The queue is scanned head to tail.  If the
49*b725ae77Skettenis    event of interest is a change of state in a file descriptor, then a
50*b725ae77Skettenis    call to poll or select will be made to detect it.
51*b725ae77Skettenis 
52*b725ae77Skettenis    If the events generate signals, they are also queued by special
53*b725ae77Skettenis    functions that are invoked through traditional signal handlers.
54*b725ae77Skettenis    The actions to be taken is response to such events will be executed
55*b725ae77Skettenis    when the SIGHANDLER_LIST is scanned, the next time through the
56*b725ae77Skettenis    infinite loop.
57*b725ae77Skettenis 
58*b725ae77Skettenis    Corollary tasks are the creation and deletion of event sources. */
59*b725ae77Skettenis 
60*b725ae77Skettenis typedef void *gdb_client_data;
61*b725ae77Skettenis struct async_signal_handler;
62*b725ae77Skettenis typedef void (handler_func) (int, gdb_client_data);
63*b725ae77Skettenis typedef void (sig_handler_func) (gdb_client_data);
64*b725ae77Skettenis typedef void (timer_handler_func) (gdb_client_data);
65*b725ae77Skettenis 
66*b725ae77Skettenis /* Where to add an event onto the event queue, by queue_event. */
67*b725ae77Skettenis typedef enum
68*b725ae77Skettenis   {
69*b725ae77Skettenis     /* Add at tail of queue. It will be processed in first in first
70*b725ae77Skettenis        out order. */
71*b725ae77Skettenis     TAIL,
72*b725ae77Skettenis     /* Add at head of queue. It will be processed in last in first out
73*b725ae77Skettenis        order. */
74*b725ae77Skettenis     HEAD
75*b725ae77Skettenis   }
76*b725ae77Skettenis queue_position;
77*b725ae77Skettenis 
78*b725ae77Skettenis /* Tell create_file_handler what events we are interested in.
79*b725ae77Skettenis    This is used by the select version of the event loop. */
80*b725ae77Skettenis 
81*b725ae77Skettenis #define GDB_READABLE	(1<<1)
82*b725ae77Skettenis #define GDB_WRITABLE	(1<<2)
83*b725ae77Skettenis #define GDB_EXCEPTION	(1<<3)
84*b725ae77Skettenis 
85*b725ae77Skettenis /* Exported functions from event-loop.c */
86*b725ae77Skettenis 
87*b725ae77Skettenis extern void start_event_loop (void);
88*b725ae77Skettenis extern int gdb_do_one_event (void *data);
89*b725ae77Skettenis extern void delete_file_handler (int fd);
90*b725ae77Skettenis extern void add_file_handler (int fd, handler_func * proc, gdb_client_data client_data);
91*b725ae77Skettenis extern void mark_async_signal_handler (struct async_signal_handler *async_handler_ptr);
92*b725ae77Skettenis extern struct async_signal_handler *
93*b725ae77Skettenis   create_async_signal_handler (sig_handler_func * proc, gdb_client_data client_data);
94*b725ae77Skettenis extern void delete_async_signal_handler (struct async_signal_handler **async_handler_ptr);
95*b725ae77Skettenis extern int create_timer (int milliseconds, timer_handler_func * proc, gdb_client_data client_data);
96*b725ae77Skettenis extern void delete_timer (int id);
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