1 /* dynl.c - dynamic linking
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46 /* "dynl.c" dynamically link&load object files.
48 Modified for libguile by Marius Vollmer */
50 #if 0 /* Disabled until we know for sure that it isn't needed */
51 /* XXX - This is only here to drag in a definition of __eprintf. This
52 is needed for proper operation of dynamic linking. The real
53 solution would probably be a shared libgcc. */
59 maybe_drag_in_eprintf ()
61 assert (!maybe_drag_in_eprintf
);
68 #include "libguile/_scm.h"
69 #include "libguile/dynl.h"
70 #include "libguile/smob.h"
71 #include "libguile/keywords.h"
72 #include "libguile/ports.h"
73 #include "libguile/strings.h"
74 #include "libguile/deprecation.h"
75 #include "libguile/lang.h"
76 #include "libguile/validate.h"
78 /* Dispatch to the system dependent files
80 * They define some static functions. These functions are called with
81 * deferred interrupts. When they want to throw errors, they are
82 * expected to insert a SCM_ALLOW_INTS before doing the throw. It
83 * might work to throw an error while interrupts are deferred (because
84 * they will be unconditionally allowed the next time a SCM_ALLOW_INTS
85 * is executed, SCM_DEFER_INTS and SCM_ALLOW_INTS do not nest).
88 #ifdef DYNAMIC_LINKING
90 #include "libltdl/ltdl.h"
93 sysdep_dynl_link (const char *fname
, const char *subr
)
96 handle
= lt_dlopenext (fname
);
103 fn
= scm_makfrom0str (fname
);
104 msg
= scm_makfrom0str (lt_dlerror ());
105 scm_misc_error (subr
, "file: ~S, message: ~S", scm_list_2 (fn
, msg
));
107 return (void *) handle
;
111 sysdep_dynl_unlink (void *handle
, const char *subr
)
113 if (lt_dlclose ((lt_dlhandle
) handle
))
116 scm_misc_error (subr
, (char *) lt_dlerror (), SCM_EOL
);
121 sysdep_dynl_func (const char *symb
, void *handle
, const char *subr
)
125 fptr
= lt_dlsym ((lt_dlhandle
) handle
, symb
);
129 scm_misc_error (subr
, (char *) lt_dlerror (), SCM_EOL
);
142 /* no dynamic linking available, throw errors. */
145 sysdep_dynl_init (void)
150 no_dynl_error (const char *subr
)
153 scm_misc_error (subr
, "dynamic linking not available", SCM_EOL
);
157 sysdep_dynl_link (const char *filename
, const char *subr
)
159 no_dynl_error (subr
);
164 sysdep_dynl_unlink (void *handle
,
167 no_dynl_error (subr
);
171 sysdep_dynl_func (const char *symbol
,
175 no_dynl_error (subr
);
181 scm_t_bits scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
;
183 #define DYNL_FILENAME(x) (SCM_CELL_OBJECT_1 (x))
184 #define DYNL_HANDLE(x) ((void *) SCM_CELL_WORD_2 (x))
185 #define SET_DYNL_HANDLE(x, v) (SCM_SET_CELL_WORD_2 ((x), (v)))
189 dynl_obj_mark (SCM ptr
)
191 return DYNL_FILENAME (ptr
);
196 dynl_obj_print (SCM exp
, SCM port
, scm_print_state
*pstate
)
198 scm_puts ("#<dynamic-object ", port
);
199 scm_iprin1 (DYNL_FILENAME (exp
), port
, pstate
);
200 if (DYNL_HANDLE (exp
) == NULL
)
201 scm_puts (" (unlinked)", port
);
202 scm_putc ('>', port
);
207 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_link
, "dynamic-link", 1, 0, 0,
209 "Open the dynamic library called @var{filename}. A library\n"
210 "handle representing the opened library is returned; this handle\n"
211 "should be used as the @var{dobj} argument to the following\n"
213 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_link
217 SCM_VALIDATE_STRING (1, filename
);
218 handle
= sysdep_dynl_link (SCM_STRING_CHARS (filename
), FUNC_NAME
);
219 SCM_RETURN_NEWSMOB2 (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, SCM_UNPACK (filename
), handle
);
224 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_object_p
, "dynamic-object?", 1, 0, 0,
226 "Return @code{#t} if @var{obj} is a dynamic library handle, or @code{#f}\n"
228 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_object_p
230 return SCM_BOOL (SCM_TYP16_PREDICATE (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, obj
));
235 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_unlink
, "dynamic-unlink", 1, 0, 0,
237 "Unlink the indicated object file from the application. The\n"
238 "argument @var{dobj} must have been obtained by a call to\n"
239 "@code{dynamic-link}. After @code{dynamic-unlink} has been\n"
240 "called on @var{dobj}, its content is no longer accessible.")
241 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_unlink
243 /*fixme* GC-problem */
244 SCM_VALIDATE_SMOB (SCM_ARG1
, dobj
, dynamic_obj
);
245 if (DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
) == NULL
) {
246 SCM_MISC_ERROR ("Already unlinked: ~S", dobj
);
249 sysdep_dynl_unlink (DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
), FUNC_NAME
);
250 SET_DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
, NULL
);
252 return SCM_UNSPECIFIED
;
258 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_func
, "dynamic-func", 2, 0, 0,
259 (SCM name
, SCM dobj
),
260 "Search the dynamic object @var{dobj} for the C function\n"
261 "indicated by the string @var{name} and return some Scheme\n"
262 "handle that can later be used with @code{dynamic-call} to\n"
263 "actually call the function.\n\n"
264 "Regardless whether your C compiler prepends an underscore @samp{_} to\n"
265 "the global names in a program, you should @strong{not} include this\n"
266 "underscore in @var{function}. Guile knows whether the underscore is\n"
267 "needed or not and will add it when necessary.")
268 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_func
270 /* The returned handle is formed by casting the address of the function to a
271 * long value and converting this to a scheme number
276 SCM_VALIDATE_STRING (1, name
);
277 /*fixme* GC-problem */
278 SCM_VALIDATE_SMOB (SCM_ARG2
, dobj
, dynamic_obj
);
279 if (DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
) == NULL
) {
280 SCM_MISC_ERROR ("Already unlinked: ~S", dobj
);
285 chars
= SCM_STRING_CHARS (name
);
286 func
= (void (*) ()) sysdep_dynl_func (chars
, DYNL_HANDLE (dobj
), FUNC_NAME
);
288 return scm_ulong2num ((unsigned long) func
);
294 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_call
, "dynamic-call", 2, 0, 0,
295 (SCM func
, SCM dobj
),
296 "Call the C function indicated by @var{func} and @var{dobj}.\n"
297 "The function is passed no arguments and its return value is\n"
298 "ignored. When @var{function} is something returned by\n"
299 "@code{dynamic-func}, call that function and ignore @var{dobj}.\n"
300 "When @var{func} is a string , look it up in @var{dynobj}; this\n"
303 "(dynamic-call (dynamic-func @var{func} @var{dobj} #f))\n"
304 "@end smallexample\n\n"
305 "Interrupts are deferred while the C function is executing (with\n"
306 "@code{SCM_DEFER_INTS}/@code{SCM_ALLOW_INTS}).")
307 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_call
311 if (SCM_STRINGP (func
))
312 func
= scm_dynamic_func (func
, dobj
);
313 fptr
= (void (*) ()) SCM_NUM2ULONG (1, func
);
317 return SCM_UNSPECIFIED
;
321 /* return a newly allocated array of char pointers to each of the strings
322 in args, with a terminating NULL pointer. */
323 /* Note: a similar function is defined in posix.c, but we don't necessarily
324 want to export it. */
325 static char **allocate_string_pointers (SCM args
, int *num_args_return
)
328 int n_args
= scm_ilength (args
);
331 SCM_ASSERT (n_args
>= 0, args
, SCM_ARGn
, "allocate_string_pointers");
332 result
= (char **) scm_malloc ((n_args
+ 1) * sizeof (char *));
333 result
[n_args
] = NULL
;
334 for (i
= 0; i
< n_args
; i
++)
336 SCM car
= SCM_CAR (args
);
338 if (!SCM_STRINGP (car
))
341 scm_wrong_type_arg ("allocate_string_pointers", SCM_ARGn
, car
);
343 result
[i
] = SCM_STRING_CHARS (SCM_CAR (args
));
344 args
= SCM_CDR (args
);
346 *num_args_return
= n_args
;
350 SCM_DEFINE (scm_dynamic_args_call
, "dynamic-args-call", 3, 0, 0,
351 (SCM func
, SCM dobj
, SCM args
),
352 "Call the C function indicated by @var{func} and @var{dobj},\n"
353 "just like @code{dynamic-call}, but pass it some arguments and\n"
354 "return its return value. The C function is expected to take\n"
355 "two arguments and return an @code{int}, just like @code{main}:\n"
357 "int c_func (int argc, char **argv);\n"
358 "@end smallexample\n\n"
359 "The parameter @var{args} must be a list of strings and is\n"
360 "converted into an array of @code{char *}. The array is passed\n"
361 "in @var{argv} and its size in @var{argc}. The return value is\n"
362 "converted to a Scheme number and returned from the call to\n"
363 "@code{dynamic-args-call}.")
364 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_dynamic_args_call
366 int (*fptr
) (int argc
, char **argv
);
370 if (SCM_STRINGP (func
))
371 func
= scm_dynamic_func (func
, dobj
);
373 fptr
= (int (*) (int, char **)) SCM_NUM2ULONG (1, func
);
375 argv
= allocate_string_pointers (args
, &argc
);
376 /* if the procedure mutates its arguments, the original strings will be
377 changed -- in Guile 1.6 and earlier, this wasn't the case since a
378 new copy of each string was allocated. */
379 result
= (*fptr
) (argc
, argv
);
383 return SCM_MAKINUM (0L + result
);
388 scm_init_dynamic_linking ()
390 scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
= scm_make_smob_type ("dynamic-object", 0);
391 scm_set_smob_mark (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, dynl_obj_mark
);
392 scm_set_smob_print (scm_tc16_dynamic_obj
, dynl_obj_print
);
394 #include "libguile/dynl.x"