Native Conditionals

When GDB is configured and compiled, various macros are defined or left undefined, to control compilation when the host and target systems are the same. These macros should be defined (or left undefined) in `nm-system.h'.

ATTACH_DETACH

If defined, then GDB will include support for the attach and detach commands.

CHILD_PREPARE_TO_STORE

If the machine stores all registers at once in the child process, then define this to ensure that all values are correct. This usually entails a read from the child. [Note that this is incorrectly defined in `xm-system.h' files currently.]

FETCH_INFERIOR_REGISTERS

Define this if the native-dependent code will provide its own routines fetch_inferior_registers and store_inferior_registers in `HOST-nat.c'. If this symbol is not defined, and `infptrace.c' is included in this configuration, the default routines in `infptrace.c' are used for these functions.

GET_LONGJMP_TARGET

For most machines, this is a target-dependent parameter. On the DECstation and the Iris, this is a native-dependent parameter, since <setjmp.h> is needed to define it. This macro determines the target PC address that longjmp() will jump to, assuming that we have just stopped at a longjmp breakpoint. It takes a CORE_ADDR * as argument, and stores the target PC value through this pointer. It examines the current state of the machine as needed.

PROC_NAME_FMT

Defines the format for the name of a `/proc' device. Should be defined in `nm.h' only in order to override the default definition in `procfs.c'.

PTRACE_FP_BUG

mach386-xdep.c

PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE

The type of the third argument to the ptrace system call, if it exists and is different from int.

REGISTER_U_ADDR

Defines the offset of the registers in the "u area"; see section Adding a New Host.

SOLIB_ADD (filename, from_tty, targ)

Define this to expand into an expression that will cause the symbols in filename to be added to GDB's symbol table.

SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK

Define this to expand into any shared-library-relocation code that you want to be run just after the child process has been forked.

START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED

When starting an inferior, GDB normally expects to trap twice; once when the shell execs, and once when the program itself execs. If the actual number of traps is something other than 2, then define this macro to expand into the number expected.

USE_PROC_FS

This determines whether small routines in `*-tdep.c', which translate register values between GDB's internal representation and the /proc representation, are compiled.

U_REGS_OFFSET

This is the offset of the registers in the upage. It need only be defined if the generic ptrace register access routines in `infptrace.c' are being used (that is, `infptrace.c' is configured in, and FETCH_INFERIOR_REGISTERS is not defined). If the default value from `infptrace.c' is good enough, leave it undefined. The default value means that u.u_ar0 points to the location of the registers. I'm guessing that #define U_REGS_OFFSET 0 means that u.u_ar0 is the location of the registers.

CLEAR_SOLIB

objfiles.c

DEBUG_PTRACE

Define this to debug ptrace calls.