// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // This package provides access to DWARF debugging information // loaded from executable files, as defined in the DWARF 2.0 Standard // at http://dwarfstd.org/doc/dwarf-2.0.0.pdf package dwarf import ( "encoding/binary" "os" ) // Data represents the DWARF debugging information // loaded from an executable file (for example, an ELF or Mach-O executable). type Data struct { // raw data abbrev []byte aranges []byte frame []byte info []byte line []byte pubnames []byte ranges []byte str []byte // parsed data abbrevCache map[uint32]abbrevTable addrsize int order binary.ByteOrder typeCache map[Offset]Type unit []unit } // New returns a new Data object initialized from the given parameters. // Clients should typically use [TODO(rsc): method to be named later] instead of calling // New directly. // // The []byte arguments are the data from the corresponding debug section // in the object file; for example, for an ELF object, abbrev is the contents of // the ".debug_abbrev" section. func New(abbrev, aranges, frame, info, line, pubnames, ranges, str []byte) (*Data, os.Error) { d := &Data{ abbrev: abbrev, aranges: aranges, frame: frame, info: info, line: line, pubnames: pubnames, ranges: ranges, str: str, abbrevCache: make(map[uint32]abbrevTable), typeCache: make(map[Offset]Type), } // Sniff .debug_info to figure out byte order. // bytes 4:6 are the version, a tiny 16-bit number (1, 2, 3). if len(d.info) < 6 { return nil, DecodeError{"info", Offset(len(d.info)), "too short"} } x, y := d.info[4], d.info[5] switch { case x == 0 && y == 0: return nil, DecodeError{"info", 4, "unsupported version 0"} case x == 0: d.order = binary.BigEndian case y == 0: d.order = binary.LittleEndian default: return nil, DecodeError{"info", 4, "cannot determine byte order"} } u, err := d.parseUnits() if err != nil { return nil, err } d.unit = u return d, nil }