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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Regression for gdb.fortran/library-module.exp  [Re: [RFA] choose symbol from given block's objfile first.]
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514175913.GM10253@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB1459E.60208@redhat.com>

> I agree; I was going to suggest it.  And naturally, this is target
> dependent.  On Windows/PE, there's no concept of symbol preemption, so
> looking in the current image / objfile would always be good.  We
> already do something of the sort with solib_global_lookup ->
> elf_lookup_lib_symbol.

<brainstorming>

So enhance elf_lookup_lib_symbol to search the main objfile?
It would mean that, if the main objfile doesn't have the symbol,
and thus returns no match, the normal lookup loop would potentially
search the main objfile a second time...

Perhaps a gdbarch method?

</brainstorming>

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 22:43 [RFC] choose symbol from given block's objfile first Joel Brobecker
2012-05-08 17:19 ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-09 19:05   ` [RFA] " Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09 19:08     ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09 20:15       ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-09 20:40         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09 20:57           ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-09 21:06             ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-10 13:42               ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-10 16:27                 ` checked in: " Joel Brobecker
2012-05-10 17:19               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09 21:48       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09 21:49         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-18 16:10           ` gdb.base/print-file-var.exp false PASS [Re: [RFA] choose symbol from given block's objfile first.] Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-18 17:17             ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-18 17:37               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-09 20:08     ` [RFA] choose symbol from given block's objfile first Tom Tromey
2012-05-11  7:26     ` Regression for gdb.fortran/library-module.exp [Re: [RFA] choose symbol from given block's objfile first.] Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 12:25       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-14 14:39       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-14 14:52         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-14 15:06           ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-14 15:15             ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-14 16:57               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-14 17:05                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-14 17:49           ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-14 17:59             ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-05-14 18:07               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-15 13:09                 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-16 19:57                   ` RFC for: "Re: Regression for gdb.fortran/library-module.exp [Re: [RFA] choose symbol from given block's objfile first.]" Joel Brobecker
2012-05-18 17:46                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-28 14:27                       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-28 16:12                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-29 15:44                           ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-29 15:49                             ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-29 15:56                             ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-29 16:02                               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-29 16:12                                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-29 16:31                                   ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-10 14:14 ` [RFC] choose symbol from given block's objfile first Pedro Alves
2012-05-10 14:32   ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-10 14:50     ` Matt Rice
2012-05-10 15:07       ` Pedro Alves

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