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The central data structure of the unwind API is the unwind cursor.
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This structure tracks the frame registers and the preserved registers.
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The distinction between frame registers and preserved registers is
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important: the former represent the *current* value of a register (as
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it existed at the current IP); the latter represent the *saved* value
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of a register (i.e., the value that existed on entry to the current
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procedure). The unwind API defines a handful of well-known frame
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"registers":
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- ip: the instruction pointer (pc)
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- rp: the return pointer (rp, aka "return address" or "return link")
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- sp: the stack pointer (memory stack pointer, in the case of ia64)
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- fp: the frame pointer
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- first_ip: the starting address of the current "procedure"
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- handler: a pointer to an architecture & language-specific
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"personality" routine
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- lsda: a pointer to an architecture & language-specific
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data-area
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The API defines no well-known preserved registers. Each architecture
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can define additional registers as needed. Of course, a portable
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application may only rely on well-known registers. The names for
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preserved registers are defined in the architecture-specific header
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file <unwind-ARCH.h>. For example, to get the IA-64-specific register
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names, an application would do:
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#include <unwind-ia64.h>
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The API is designed to handle two primary cases: unwinding within the
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current (local) process and unwinding of another ("remote") process
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(e.g., through ptrace()). In the local case, the initial machine
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state is captured by an unwind context (currently the same as
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ucontext_t). In the remote case, the initial machine state is
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captured by an unwind accessor structure, which provides callback
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routines for reading/writing memory and registers and for obtaining
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unwind information.
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Once a cursor has been initialized, you can step through the call
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chain with the unw_step() routine. The frame registers and the
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preserved state can then be accessed with unw_get_reg() or modified
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with unw_set_reg(). For floating-point registers, there are separate
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unw_get_fpreg() and unw_set_fpreg() routines (on some arches, e.g.,
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Alpha, these could be just aliases for unw_{g,s}et_reg()). The
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unw_resume() routine can be used to resume execution at an arbitrary
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point in the call-chain (as identified by an unwind cursor). This is
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intended for exception handling and, at least for now, the intention
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is to support this routine only for the local case. Kevin, if you
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feel gdb could benefit from such a routine, I'd be interested to hear
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about it.
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Note that it is perfectly legal to make copies of the unwind cursor.
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This makes it possible, e.g., to obtain an unwind context, modify the
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state in an earlier call frame, and then resume execution at the point
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at which the unwind context was captured.
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Here is a quick example of how to use the unwind API to do a simple
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stack trace:
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unw_cursor_t cursor;
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unw_word_t ip, sp;
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ucontext_t uc;
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getcontext(&uc);
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unw_init_local(&cursor, &uc);
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do
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{
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unw_get_reg(&cursor, UNW_REG_IP, &ip);
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unw_get_reg(&cursor, UNW_REG_SP, &sp);
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printf ("ip=%016lx sp=%016lx\n", ip, sp);
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}
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while (unw_step (&cursor) > 0);
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Note that this particular example should work on pretty much any
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architecture, as it doesn't rely on any arch-specific registers.
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