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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) 2003-2014, Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
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-- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
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-- GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. --
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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 System.OS_Lib; use System.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.
Direct);
-- The reference symbol file is copied to the symbol file
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, 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;