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 * Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project
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#pragma once

#include <elf.h>
#include <link.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/auxv.h>

#include "platform/bionic/macros.h"

// When the kernel starts the dynamic linker, it passes a pointer to a block
// of memory containing argc, the argv array, the environment variable array,
// and the array of ELF aux vectors. This class breaks that block up into its
// constituents for easy access.
class KernelArgumentBlock {
 public:
  __attribute__((no_sanitize("hwaddress"))) explicit KernelArgumentBlock(void* raw_args) {
    uintptr_t* args = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t*>(raw_args);
    argc = static_cast<int>(*args);
    argv = reinterpret_cast<char**>(args + 1);
    envp = argv + argc + 1;

    // Skip over all environment variable definitions to find the aux vector.
    // The end of the environment block is marked by a NULL pointer.
    char** p = envp;
    while (*p != nullptr) {
      ++p;
    }
    ++p; // Skip the NULL itself.

    auxv = reinterpret_cast<ElfW(auxv_t)*>(p);
  }

  // Similar to ::getauxval but doesn't require the libc global variables to be set up,
  // so it's safe to call this really early on.
  __attribute__((no_sanitize("hwaddress"))) unsigned long getauxval(unsigned long type) {
    for (ElfW(auxv_t)* v = auxv; v->a_type != AT_NULL; ++v) {
      if (v->a_type == type) {
        return v->a_un.a_val;
      }
    }
    return 0;
  }

  int argc;
  char** argv;
  char** envp;
  ElfW(auxv_t)* auxv;

 private:
  BIONIC_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(KernelArgumentBlock);
};