Re: RFA/RFC: dump symtab and psymtab lists

David Carlton
2003-04-14T19:05:09Z

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:52:29 -0400, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:

>> Okay, here's a revised patch that calls them "maint list {,p}symtab".
>> Unfortunatly, there is `(gdb) list' command, so one would expect a
>> certain level of correspondance between `(gdb) list' and `(gdb maint
>> list'. This is like `(gdb) info breakpoints' vs `(gdb) maint info
>> breakpoints'.

>> This also rules out my `maint search' suggestion :-(

>> `maint query <db> <query>'?

> Jim, did you see this point?

For what it's worth, the existing 'maint print' commands already break
this correspondence: 'print' doesn't send output to a file, but 'maint
print' does. There might be some way of naming GDB's commands to
preserve this correspondence, to make the arguments consistent, and to
be easy to remember, but I think it will take a fair amount of
cleaning up.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu