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- // $Id: deref.C,v 1.5 1998/10/23 20:30:25 zeller Exp $ -*- C++ -*-
- // Dereference expression
-
- // Copyright (C) 1998 Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany.
- // Written by Andreas Zeller <zeller@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>.
- //
- // This file is part of DDD.
- //
- // DDD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- // modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
- // License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- // version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- //
- // DDD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- // but WITHOUT 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 along with DDD -- see the file COPYING.
- // If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- // 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- //
- // DDD is the data display debugger.
- // For details, see the DDD World-Wide-Web page,
- // `http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/',
- // or send a mail to the DDD developers <ddd@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>.
-
- char deref_rcsid[] =
- "$Id: deref.C,v 1.5 1998/10/23 20:30:25 zeller Exp $";
-
- #ifdef __GNUG__
- #pragma implementation
- #endif
-
- #include "deref.h"
-
- #include "GDBAgent.h"
- #include "assert.h"
- #include "ddd.h"
- #include "buttons.h"
- #include "disp-read.h"
- #include "question.h"
- #include "regexps.h"
- #include "string-fun.h"
-
- // Return dereferenced EXPR. Only useful in Perl.
- string deref(const string& expr, const string& sym)
- {
- const string& symbol = (sym == "" ? expr : sym);
-
- if (gdb->program_language() != LANGUAGE_PERL)
- return gdb->dereferenced_expr(symbol);
-
- assert(gdb->program_language() == LANGUAGE_PERL);
- if (!expr.contains('$', 0))
- return symbol; // Only scalars can be dereferenced
-
- string ref = NO_GDB_ANSWER;
-
- if (ref == NO_GDB_ANSWER)
- {
- // Try value directly. Must have the form `REF(ADDRESS)'.
- string val = gdbValue(expr);
- if (val.matches(rxperlref))
- ref = val.through(rxidentifier);
- }
-
- #if 0
- if (ref == NO_GDB_ANSWER)
- {
- // Try `ref' operator
- ref = gdbValue("ref(" + expr + ")");
- }
- #endif
-
- if (ref == NO_GDB_ANSWER)
- return symbol; // Cannot access debugger
-
- strip_space(ref);
- string prefix = "";
- if (ref == "REF")
- prefix = "$";
- else if (ref == "SCALAR")
- prefix = "$";
- else if (ref == "ARRAY")
- prefix = "@";
- else if (ref == "HASH")
- prefix = "%";
- else if (ref == "CODE")
- prefix = "&";
- else if (ref == "GLOB")
- prefix = "*";
- else
- return symbol; // Unknown type
-
- if (symbol == "()" || symbol.matches(rxidentifier))
- return prefix + symbol;
- else
- return prefix + "{" + symbol + "}";
- }
-