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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] choose symbol from given block's objfile first.
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:32:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4FABCD04.2070006@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 10	May 2012 15:13:24 +0100")
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>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> <pedantic mode>
Pedro> Still, this wouldn't solve the case of loading the same
Pedro> library twice...  Which symbol would you print?
Pedro> </pedantic mode>

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.

Tom