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-- GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS --
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-- S Y M B O L S --
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-- S p e c --
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-- Copyright (C) 2003-2005, Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
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-- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
-- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- --
-- ware Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later ver- --
-- sion. GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH- --
-- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY --
-- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License --
-- for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General --
-- Public License distributed with GNAT; see file COPYING. If not, write --
-- to the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, --
-- Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. --
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-- GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. --
-- Extensive contributions were provided by Ada Core Technologies Inc. --
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-- This package allows the creation of symbol files to be used for linking
-- libraries. The format of symbol files depends on the platform, so there is
-- several implementations of the body.
with GNAT.Dynamic_Tables;
with GNAT.OS_Lib; use GNAT.OS_Lib;
package Symbols is
type Policy is
-- Symbol policy
(Autonomous,
-- Create a symbol file without considering any reference
Compliant,
-- Either create a symbol file with the same major and minor IDs if
-- all symbols are already found in the reference file or with an
-- incremented minor ID, if not.
Controlled,
-- Fail if symbols are not the same as those in the reference file
Restricted);
-- Restrict the symbols to those in the symbol file. Fail if some
-- symbols in the symbol file are not exported from the object files.
type Symbol_Kind is (Data, Proc);
-- To distinguish between the different kinds of symbols
type Symbol_Data is record
Name : String_Access;
Kind : Symbol_Kind := Data;
Present : Boolean := True;
end record;
-- Data (name and kind) for each of the symbols
package Symbol_Table is new GNAT.Dynamic_Tables
(Table_Component_Type => Symbol_Data,
Table_Index_Type => Natural,
Table_Low_Bound => 0,
Table_Initial => 100,
Table_Increment => 100);
-- The symbol tables
Original_Symbols : Symbol_Table.Instance;
-- The symbols, if any, found in the reference symbol table
Complete_Symbols : Symbol_Table.Instance;
-- The symbols, if any, found in the objects files
procedure Initialize
(Symbol_File : String;
Reference : String;
Symbol_Policy : Policy;
Quiet : Boolean;
Version : String;
Success : out Boolean);
-- Initialize a symbol file. This procedure must be called before
-- Processing any object file. Depending on the platforms and the
-- circumstances, additional messages may be issued if Quiet is False.
package Processing is
-- This package, containing a single visible procedure Process, exists so
-- that it can be a subunits, for some platforms (such as VMS Alpha and
-- IA64), the body of package Symbols is common, while the subunit
-- Processing is not.
procedure Process
(Object_File : String;
Success : out Boolean);
-- Get the symbols from an object file. Success is set to True if the
-- object file exists and has the expected format.
end Processing;
procedure Finalize
(Quiet : Boolean;
Success : out Boolean);
-- Finalize the symbol file. This procedure should be called after
-- Initialize (once) and Process (one or more times). If Success is
-- True, the symbol file is written and closed, ready to be used for
-- linking the library. Depending on the platforms and the circumstances,
-- additional messages may be issued if Quiet is False.
end Symbols;