solidity/test/evmc/loader.h
2019-07-17 14:24:27 +02:00

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/* EVMC: Ethereum Client-VM Connector API.
* Copyright 2018-2019 The EVMC Authors.
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
*/
/**
* EVMC Loader Library
*
* The EVMC Loader Library supports loading VMs implemented as Dynamically Loaded Libraries
* (DLLs, shared objects).
*
* @defgroup loader EVMC Loader
* @{
*/
#pragma once
#if __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/** The function pointer type for EVMC create functions. */
typedef struct evmc_instance* (*evmc_create_fn)(void);
/** Error codes for the EVMC loader. */
enum evmc_loader_error_code
{
/** The loader succeeded. */
EVMC_LOADER_SUCCESS = 0,
/** The loader cannot open the given file name. */
EVMC_LOADER_CANNOT_OPEN = 1,
/** The VM create function not found. */
EVMC_LOADER_SYMBOL_NOT_FOUND = 2,
/** The invalid argument value provided. */
EVMC_LOADER_INVALID_ARGUMENT = 3,
/** The creation of a VM instance has failed. */
EVMC_LOADER_INSTANCE_CREATION_FAILURE = 4,
/** The ABI version of the VM instance has mismatched. */
EVMC_LOADER_ABI_VERSION_MISMATCH = 5
};
/**
* Dynamically loads the shared object (DLL) with an EVM implementation.
*
* This function tries to open a DLL at the given `filename`. On UNIX-like systems dlopen() function
* is used. On Windows LoadLibrary() function is used.
*
* If the file does not exist or is not a valid shared library the ::EVMC_LOADER_CANNOT_OPEN error
* code is signaled and NULL is returned.
*
* After the DLL is successfully loaded the function tries to find the EVM create function in the
* library. The `filename` is used to guess the EVM name and the name of the create function.
* The create function name is constructed by the following rules. Consider example path:
* "/ethereum/libexample-interpreter.so".
* - the filename is taken from the path:
* "libexample-interpreter.so",
* - the "lib" prefix and file extension are stripped from the name:
* "example-interpreter"
* - all "-" are replaced with "_" to construct _base name_:
* "example_interpreter",
* - the function name "evmc_create_" + _base name_ is searched in the library:
* "evmc_create_example_interpreter",
* - if function not found, the _base name_ is shorten by skipping the first word separated by "_":
* "interpreter",
* - then, the function of the shorter name "evmc_create_" + _base name_ is searched in the library:
* "evmc_create_interpreter",
* - the name shortening continues until a function is found or the name cannot be shorten more,
* - lastly, when no function found, the function name "evmc_create" is searched in the library.
*
* If the create function is found in the library, the pointer to the function is returned.
* Otherwise, the ::EVMC_LOADER_SYMBOL_NOT_FOUND error code is signaled and NULL is returned.
*
* It is safe to call this function with the same filename argument multiple times
* (the DLL is not going to be loaded multiple times).
*
* @param filename The null terminated path (absolute or relative) to the shared library
* containing the EVM implementation. If the value is NULL, an empty C-string
* or longer than the path maximum length the ::EVMC_LOADER_INVALID_ARGUMENT is
* signaled.
* @param error_code The pointer to the error code. If not NULL the value is set to
* ::EVMC_LOADER_SUCCESS on success or any other error code as described above.
* @return The pointer to the EVM create function or NULL.
*/
evmc_create_fn evmc_load(const char* filename, enum evmc_loader_error_code* error_code);
/**
* Dynamically loads the VM DLL and creates the VM instance.
*
* This is a macro for creating the VM instance with the function returned from evmc_load().
* The function signals the same errors as evmc_load() and additionally:
* - ::EVMC_LOADER_INSTANCE_CREATION_FAILURE when the create function returns NULL,
* - ::EVMC_LOADER_ABI_VERSION_MISMATCH when the created VM instance has ABI version different
* from the ABI version of this library (::EVMC_ABI_VERSION).
*
* It is safe to call this function with the same filename argument multiple times:
* the DLL is not going to be loaded multiple times, but the function will return new VM instance
* each time.
*/
struct evmc_instance* evmc_load_and_create(const char* filename,
enum evmc_loader_error_code* error_code);
/**
* Returns the human-readable message describing the most recent error
* that occurred in EVMC loading since the last call to this function.
*
* In case any loading function returned ::EVMC_LOADER_SUCCESS this function always returns NULL.
* In case of error code other than success returned, this function MAY return the error message.
* Calling this function "consumes" the error message and the function will return NULL
* from subsequent invocations.
* This function is not thread-safe.
*
* @return Error message or NULL if no additional information is available.
* The returned pointer MUST NOT be freed by the caller.
*/
const char* evmc_last_error_msg();
#if __cplusplus
}
#endif
/** @} */