namespace llvm {
-/// Abstract base class for contiguous addressable memory. Necessary for cases
-/// in which the memory is in another process, in a file, or on a remote
-/// machine. All size and offset parameters are uint64_ts, to allow 32-bit
-/// processes access to 64-bit address spaces.
+/// Interface to data which might be streamed. Streamability has 2 important
+/// implications/restrictions. First, the data might not yet exist in memory
+/// when the request is made. This just means that readByte/readBytes might have
+/// to block or do some work to get it. More significantly, the exact size of
+/// the object might not be known until it has all been fetched. This means that
+/// to return the right result, getExtent must also wait for all the data to
+/// arrive; therefore it should not be called on objects which are actually
+/// streamed (this would defeat the purpose of streaming). Instead,
+/// isValidAddress can be used to test addresses without knowing the exact size
+/// of the stream. Finally, getPointer can be used instead of readBytes to avoid
+/// extra copying.
class MemoryObject {
public:
virtual ~MemoryObject();
virtual uint64_t getExtent() const = 0;
/// Tries to read a contiguous range of bytes from the region, up to the end
- /// of the region. You should override this function if there is a quicker way
- /// than going back and forth with individual bytes.
+ /// of the region.
///
- /// @param address - The address of the first byte, in the same space as
- /// getBase().
- /// @param size - The number of bytes to copy.
- /// @param buf - A pointer to a buffer to be filled in. Must be non-NULL
+ /// @param Buf - A pointer to a buffer to be filled in. Must be non-NULL
/// and large enough to hold size bytes.
- /// @result - 0 if successful; -1 if not. Failure may be due to a
- /// bounds violation or an implementation-specific error.
- virtual int readBytes(uint64_t address, uint64_t size,
- uint8_t *buf) const = 0;
+ /// @param Size - The number of bytes to copy.
+ /// @param Address - The address of the first byte, in the same space as
+ /// getBase().
+ /// @result - The number of bytes read.
+ virtual uint64_t readBytes(uint8_t *Buf, uint64_t Size,
+ uint64_t Address) const = 0;
+
+ /// Ensures that the requested data is in memory, and returns a pointer to it.
+ /// More efficient than using readBytes if the data is already in memory. May
+ /// block until (address - base + size) bytes have been read
+ /// @param address - address of the byte, in the same space as getBase()
+ /// @param size - amount of data that must be available on return
+ /// @result - valid pointer to the requested data
+ virtual const uint8_t *getPointer(uint64_t address, uint64_t size) const = 0;
+
+ /// Returns true if the address is within the object (i.e. between base and
+ /// base + extent - 1 inclusive). May block until (address - base) bytes have
+ /// been read
+ /// @param address - address of the byte, in the same space as getBase()
+ /// @result - true if the address may be read with readByte()
+ virtual bool isValidAddress(uint64_t address) const = 0;
};
}