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Note: The new debugging interface can be considered to be stable,
with the exception of the in-memory message construction functions.
However, there is still a lot of work to be done to polish
things up. To make my life easier, please follow the guidelines
described in this document.
Read this document before writing new code. DO NOT USE fprintf
(or printf) to output things. Also, instead of writing
FIXMEs in the source, output a FIXME message if you can.
IMPORTANT: at the end of the document, there is a "Style Guide"
for debugging messages. Please read it.
28 Mar 1998, Dimitrie O. Paun <dimi@cs.toronto.edu>
Debugging classes
-----------------
There are 4 types (or classes) of debugging messages:
FIXME -- Messages in this class relate to behavior of Wine that does
not correspond to standard Windows behavior and that should
be fixed.
Examples: stubs, semi-implemented features, etc.
ERR -- Messages in this class relate to serious errors in Wine.
This sort of messages are close to asserts -- that is,
you should output an error message when the code detects a
condition which should not happen. In other words, important
things that are not warnings (see below), are errors.
Examples: unexpected change in internal state, etc.
WARN -- These are warning messages. You should report a warning when
something unwanted happen but the function behaves properly.
That is, output a warning when you encounter something
unexpected (ex: could not open a file) but the function deals
correctly with the situation (that is, according to the docs).
If you do not deal correctly with it, output a fixme.
Examples: fail to access a resource required by the app, etc.
TRACE -- These are detailed debugging messages that are mainly useful
to debug a component. These are usually turned off.
Examples: everything else that does not fall in one of the
above mentioned categories and the user does not
need to know about it.
The user has the capability to turn on or off messages of a particular
type. You can expect the following patterns of usage (but note that
any combination is possible):
-- when you debug a component, all types (TRACE,WARN,ERR,FIXME)
will be enabled.
-- during the pre-alpha (maybe alpha) stage of Wine, most likely
the TRACE class will be disabled by default, but all others
(WARN,ERR,FIXME) will be enabled by default.
-- when Wine will become stable, most likely the TRACE and WARN
classes will be disabled by default, but all ERRs and FIXMEs
will be enabled.
-- in some installations that want the smallest footprint
and where the debug information is of no interest,
all classes may be disabled by default.
Of course, the user will have the runtime ability to override these
defaults. However, this ability may be turned off and certain classes
of messages may be completely disabled at compile time to reduce the
size of Wine.
Debugging channels
------------------
Also, we divide the debugging messages on a component basis. Each
component is assigned a debugging channel. The identifier of the
channel must be a valid C identifier but note that it may also be a
reserved word like int or static.
Examples of debugging channels:
reg, updown, string
We will refer to a generic channel as xxx.
Note: for those who know the old interface, the channel/type is
what followed the _ in the dprintf_xxx statements.
For example, to output a message on the debugging channel
reg in the old interface you would had to write:
dprintf_reg(stddeb, "Could not access key!\n");
In the new interface, we drop the stddeb as it is implicit.
However, we add an orthogonal piece of information to the
message: its class. This is very important as it will allow
us to selectively turn on or off certain messages based on the
type of information they report. For this reason it is essential
to choose the right class for the message.
Anyhow, suppose we figured that this message should belong
in the WARN class, so in the new interface, you write:
WARN(reg, "Could not access key!\n");
---
How to use it
-------------
So, to output a message (class YYY) on channel xxx, do:
#include "debug.h"
....
YYY(xxx, "<message>", ...);
Some examples from the code:
#include "debug.h"
...
TRACE(crtdll, "CRTDLL_setbuf(file %p buf %p)", file, buf);
WARN(aspi, "Error opening device errno=%d", save_error);
If you need to declare a new debugging channel, use it in your code
and then do:
%tools/make_debug
in the root directory of Wine.
Note that this will result in almost complete recompilation of Wine.
Notes:
1. Please pay attention to which class you assign the message.
There are only 4 classes, so it is not hard. The reason
it is important to get it right is that too much information
is no information. For example, if you put things into the
WARN class that should really be in the TRACE class, the
output will be too big and this will force the user to
turn warnings off. But this way he will fail to see the important
ones. Also, if you put warnings into the TRACE class lets say,
he will most likely miss those because usually the TRACE class
is turned off. A similar argument can be made if you mix any
other two classes.
2. All lines should end with a newline.If you can NOT output
everything that you want in the line with only one statement,
then you need to build the string in memory.
Please read the section below "In-memory messages" on the
preferred way to do it. PLEASE USE THAT INTERFACE TO BUILD
MESSAGES IN MEMORY. The reason is that we are not sure that
we like it and having everything in one format will facilitate
the (automatic) translation to a better interface.
Are we debugging?
-----------------
To test whether the debugging output of class yyy on channel xxx is
enabled, use:
TRACE_ON to test if TRACE is enabled
WARN_ON to test if WARN is enabled
FIXME_ON to test if FIXME is enabled
ERR_ON to test if ERR is enabled
Examples:
if(TRACE_ON(atom)){
...blah...
}
Note that you should normally need to test only if TRACE_ON. At present,
none of the other 3 tests (except for ERR_ON which is used only once!)
are used in Wine.
In-memory messages
------------------
If you NEED to build the message from multiple calls, you need to
build it in memory. To do that, you should use the following
interface:
- declare a string (where you are allowed to declare C variables)
as follows:
dbg_decl_str(name, len);
where name is the name of the string (you should use the channel
name on which you are going to output it)
- print in it with:
dsprintf(name, "<message>", ...);
which is just like a sprintf function but instead of a C string as
first parameter it takes the name you used to declare it.
- obtain a pointer to the string with:
dbg_str(name)
- reset the string (if you want to reuse it with):
dbg_reset_str(name);
Example (modified from the code):
void some_func(tabs)
{
INT32 i;
LPINT16 p = (LPINT16)tabs;
dbg_decl_str(listbox, 256); /* declare the string */
for (i = 0; i < descr->nb_tabs; i++) {
descr->tabs[i] = *p++<<1;
if(TRACING(listbox)) /* write in it only if
dsprintf(listbox, "%hd ", descr->tabs[i]); /* we are gonna output it */
}
TRACE(listbox, "Listbox %04x: settabstops %s",
wnd->hwndSelf, dbg_str(listbox)); /* output the whole thing */
}
If you need to use it two times in the same scope do like this:
void some_func(tabs)
{
INT32 i;
LPINT16 p = (LPINT16)tabs;
dbg_decl_str(listbox, 256); /* declare the string */
for (i = 0; i < descr->nb_tabs; i++) {
descr->tabs[i] = *p++<<1;
if(TRACING(listbox)) /* write in it only if
dsprintf(listbox, "%hd ", descr->tabs[i]); /* we are gonna output it */
}
TRACE(listbox, "Listbox %04x: settabstops %s\n",
wnd->hwndSelf, dbg_str(listbox)); /* output the whole thing */
dbg_reset_str(listbox); /* !!!reset the string!!! */
for (i = 0; i < descr->extrainfo_nr; i++) {
descr->extrainfo = *p+1;
if(TRACING(listbox)) /* write in it only if
dsprintf(listbox,"%3d ",descr->extrainfo); /* we are gonna output it */
}
TRACE(listbox, "Listbox %04x: extrainfo %s\n",
wnd->hwndSelf, dbg_str(listbox)); /* output the whole thing */
}
IMPORTANT NOTE:
As I already stated, I do not think this will be the ultimate interface
for building in-memory debugging messages. In fact, I do have better ideas
which I hope to have time to implement for the next release. For this
reason, please try not to use it. However, if you need to output a line
in more than one dprintf_xxx calls, then USE THIS INTERFACE. DO NOT use
other methods. This way, I will easily translate everything to the new
interface (when it will become available). So, if you need to use it,
then follow the following guidelines:
-- wrap calls to dsprintf with a
if(YYY(xxx))
dsprintf(xxx,...);
Of course, if the call to dsprintf is made from within a function
which you know is called only if YYY(xxx) is true
(say you call it only like this:
if(YYY(xxx))
print_some_debug_info();
)
then you need not (and should not) wrap calls to dsprintf with
the before mentioned if.
-- name the string EXACTLY like the debugging channel on which
is going to be output. Please see the above example.
Resource identifiers
--------------------
Resource identifiers can be either strings or numbers. To make life a bit
easier for outputting this beasts (and to help you avoid the need to build
the message in memory), I introduced a new function called:
debugres
The function is defined in debugstr.h
and has the following prototype:
LPSTR debugres(const void *id);
It takes a pointer to the resource id and returns a nicely formatted
string of the identifier.
It the high word of the pointer is 0, then it assumes that the
identifier is a number and thus returns a string of the form:
#xxxx
where xxxx are 4 hex-digits representing the low word of id.
It the high word of the pointer is not 0, then it assumes that the
identifier is a string and thus returns a string of the form:
'<identifier>'
Thus, to use it, do something on the following lines:
#include "debug.h"
...
YYY(xxx, "resource is %s", debugres(myresource));
The -debugmsg command line option
---------------------------------
So, the -debugmsg command line option has been changed as follows:
- the new syntax is: -debugmsg [yyy]#xxx[,[yyy1]#xxx1]*
where # is either + or -
- when the optional class argument (yyy) is not present,
then the statement will enable(+)/disable(-) all messages for
the given channel (xxx) on all classes. For example:
-debugmsg +reg,-file
enables all messages on the reg channel and disables all
messages on the file channel.
This is same as the old semantics.
- when the optional class argument (yyy) is present,
then the statement will enable(+)/disable(-) messages for
the given channel (xxx) only on the given class. For example:
-debugmsg trace+reg,warn-file
enables trace messages on the reg channel and disables warning
messages on the file channel.
- also, the pseudo-channel all is also supported and it has the
intuitive semantics:
-debugmsg +all -- enables all debug messages
-debugmsg -all -- disables all debug messages
-debugmsg yyy+all -- enables debug messages for class yyy on all
channels.
-debugmsg yyy-all -- disables debug messages for class yyy on all
channels.
So, for example:
-debugmsg warn-all -- disables all warning messages.
Also, note that at the moment:
- the fixme and err classes are enabled by default
- the trace and warn classes are disabled by default
Compiling Out Debugging Messages
--------------------------------
To compile out the debugging messages, provide configure with the
following options:
--disable-debug -- turns off TRACE, WARN, and FIXME (and DUMP).
--disable-trace -- turns off TRACE only.
This will result in an executable that, when stripped, is about 15%-20%
smaller. Note, however, that you will not be able to effectively debug
Wine without these messages.
This feature has not been extensively tested--it may subtly break some
things.
A Few Notes on Style
--------------------
This new scheme makes certain things more consistent but there is still
room for improvement by using a common style of debug messages. Before
I continue, let me note that the output format is the following:
yyy:xxx:fff <message>
where:
yyy = the class (fixme, err, warn, trace)
xxx = the channel (atom, win, font, etc)
fff = the function name
these fields are output automatically. All you have to provide is
the <message> part.
So here are some ideas:
* do NOT include the name of the function: it is included automatically
* if you want to output the parameters of the function, do it as the first
thing and include them in parenthesis, like this:
YYY(xxx, "(%d,%p,etc)...\n", par1, par2, ...);
* for stubs, you should output a FIXME message. I suggest this style:
FIXME(xxx, "(%x,%d...): stub\n", par1, par2, ...);
That is, you output the parameters, then a : and then a string
containing the word "stub". I've seen "empty stub", and others, but I
think that just "stub" suffices.
* output 1 and ONLY 1 line per message. That is, the format string should
contain only 1 \n and it should always appear at the end of the string.
(there are many reasons for this requirement, one of them is that each
debug macro adds things to the beginning of the line)
* if you want to name a value, use = and NOT :. That is, instead of
saying:
FIXME(xxx, "(fd: %d, file: %s): stub\n", fd, name);
say:
FIXME(xxx, "(fd=%d, file=%s): stub\n", fd, name);
use : to separate categories.
* try to avoid the style:
FIXME(xxx,
"(fd=%d, file=%s): stub\n", fd, name);
but use:
FIXME(xxx, "(fd=%d, file=%s): stub\n", fd, name);
The reason is that if you want to grep for things, you would search for
FIXME but in the first case there is no additional information available,
where in the second one, there is (e.g. the word stub)
* if you output a string s that might contain control characters,
or if s may be null, use debugstr_a (for ASCII strings, or
debugstr_w for Unicode strings) to convert s to a C string, like
this:
HANDLE32 WINAPI YourFunc(LPCSTR s)
{
FIXME(xxx, "(%s): stub\n", debugstr_a(s));
}
* if you want to output a resource identifier, use debugres to
convert it to a string first, like this:
HANDLE32 WINAPI YourFunc(LPCSTR res)
{
FIXME(xxx, "(res=%s): stub\n", debugres(s));
}
if the resource identifier is a SEGPTR, use PTR_SEG_TO_LIN to get a
liner pointer first:
HRSRC16 WINAPI FindResource16( HMODULE16 hModule, SEGPTR name, SEGPTR type )
{
[...]
TRACE(resource, "module=%04x name=%s type=%s\n",
hModule, debugres(PTR_SEG_TO_LIN(name)),
debugres(PTR_SEG_TO_LIN(type)) );
[...]
}
* for messages intended for the user (specifically those that report
errors in wine.conf), use the MSG macro. Use it like a printf:
MSG( "Definition of drive %d is incorrect!\n", drive );
However, note that there are _very_ few valid uses of this macro.
Most messages are debugging messages, so chances are you will not
need to use this macro. Grep the source to get an idea where it
is appropriate to use it.
* for structure dumps, use the DUMP macro. Use it like a printf,
just like the MSG macro. Similarly, there are only a few valid
uses of this macro. Grep the source to see when to use it.
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