From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23610 invoked by alias); 10 May 2012 15:07:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 23602 invoked by uid 22791); 10 May 2012 15:07:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BJ,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:07:39 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4AF7H3o030686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 10 May 2012 11:07:17 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q4AF7F4W001795; Thu, 10 May 2012 11:07:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4FABD9A3.1000300@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:07:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Rice CC: Tom Tromey , Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] choose symbol from given block's objfile first. References: <1336430581-11262-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <4FABCD04.2070006@redhat.com> <87wr4kp0no.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00347.txt.bz2 On 05/10/2012 03:50 PM, Matt Rice wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves writes: >> >> Pedro> >> Pedro> Still, this wouldn't solve the case of loading the same >> Pedro> library twice... Which symbol would you print? >> Pedro> >> >> Yeah, we'd need additional syntax for that. >> >> One idea that came up on irc was to have 'info var' print the address of >> variables. That way you could always at least find the address of the >> one you want. > > another idea (inspired by the handle returned by dlopen, argument to > dlsym and friends), is something like > > (gdb) print libsomething.so@1::this_library_version > (gdb) print libsomething.so@2::this_library_version > > and some associated command to get a list of libraries and their handle. Sounds like a good idea. "info sharedlibrary" itself could show the unambiguous handles. -- Pedro Alves