1 /* GDB Notifications to Observers.
3 Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
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14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 /* An observer is an entity who is interested in being notified when GDB
21 reaches certain states, or certain events occur in GDB. The entity being
22 observed is called the Subject. To receive notifications, the observer
23 attaches a callback to the subject. One subject can have several
26 This file implements an internal generic low-level event notification
27 mechanism based on the Observer paradigm described in the book "Design
28 Patterns". This generic event notification mechansim is then re-used
29 to implement the exported high-level notification management routines
30 for all possible notifications.
32 The current implementation of the generic observer provides support
33 for contextual data. This contextual data is given to the subject
34 when attaching the callback. In return, the subject will provide
35 this contextual data back to the observer as a parameter of the
38 FIXME: The current support for the contextual data is only partial,
39 as it lacks a mechanism that would deallocate this data when the
40 callback is detached. This is not a problem so far, as this contextual
41 data is only used internally to hold a function pointer. Later on,
42 if a certain observer needs to provide support for user-level
43 contextual data, then the generic notification mechanism will need
44 need to be enhanced to allow the observer to provide a routine to
45 deallocate the data when attaching the callback.
47 This file is currently maintained by hand, but the long term plan
48 if the number of different notifications starts growing is to create
49 a new script (observer.sh) that would generate this file, and the
50 associated documentation. */
57 static int observer_debug;
59 show_observer_debug (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
60 struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
62 fprintf_filtered (file, _("Observer debugging is %s.\n"), value);
65 /* The internal generic observer. */
67 typedef void (generic_observer_notification_ftype) (const void *data,
72 generic_observer_notification_ftype *notify;
73 /* No memory management needed for the following field for now. */
77 /* A list of observers, maintained by the subject. A subject is
78 actually represented by its list of observers. */
82 struct observer_list *next;
83 struct observer *observer;
86 /* Allocate a struct observer_list, intended to be used as a node
87 in the list of observers maintained by a subject. */
89 static struct observer_list *
90 xalloc_observer_list_node (void)
92 struct observer_list *node = XMALLOC (struct observer_list);
93 node->observer = XMALLOC (struct observer);
97 /* The opposite of xalloc_observer_list_node, frees the memory for
101 xfree_observer_list_node (struct observer_list *node)
103 xfree (node->observer);
107 /* Attach the callback NOTIFY to a SUBJECT. The DATA is also stored,
108 in order for the subject to provide it back to the observer during
111 static struct observer *
112 generic_observer_attach (struct observer_list **subject,
113 generic_observer_notification_ftype * notify,
116 struct observer_list *observer_list = xalloc_observer_list_node ();
118 observer_list->next = *subject;
119 observer_list->observer->notify = notify;
120 observer_list->observer->data = data;
121 *subject = observer_list;
123 return observer_list->observer;
126 /* Remove the given OBSERVER from the SUBJECT. Once detached, OBSERVER
127 should no longer be used, as it is no longer valid. */
130 generic_observer_detach (struct observer_list **subject,
131 const struct observer *observer)
133 struct observer_list *previous_node = NULL;
134 struct observer_list *current_node = *subject;
136 while (current_node != NULL)
138 if (current_node->observer == observer)
140 if (previous_node != NULL)
141 previous_node->next = current_node->next;
143 *subject = current_node->next;
144 xfree_observer_list_node (current_node);
147 previous_node = current_node;
148 current_node = current_node->next;
151 /* We should never reach this point. However, this should not be
152 a very serious error, so simply report a warning to the user. */
153 warning (_("Failed to detach observer"));
156 /* Send a notification to all the observers of SUBJECT. ARGS is passed to
157 all observers as an argument to the notification callback. */
160 generic_observer_notify (struct observer_list *subject, const void *args)
162 struct observer_list *current_node = subject;
164 while (current_node != NULL)
166 (*current_node->observer->notify) (current_node->observer->data, args);
167 current_node = current_node->next;
172 /* The following code is only used to unit-test the observers from our
173 testsuite. DO NOT USE IT within observer.c (or anywhere else for
176 /* If we define these variables and functions as `static', the
177 compiler will optimize them out. */
179 int observer_test_first_observer = 0;
180 int observer_test_second_observer = 0;
181 int observer_test_third_observer = 0;
184 observer_test_first_notification_function (int arg)
186 observer_test_first_observer++;
190 observer_test_second_notification_function (int arg)
192 observer_test_second_observer++;
196 observer_test_third_notification_function (int arg)
198 observer_test_third_observer++;
201 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_observer; /* -Wmissing-prototypes */
204 _initialize_observer (void)
206 add_setshow_zinteger_cmd ("observer", class_maintenance,
207 &observer_debug, _("\
208 Set observer debugging."), _("\
209 Show observer debugging."), _("\
210 When non-zero, observer debugging is enabled."),
213 &setdebuglist, &showdebuglist);
216 #include "observer.inc"