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Subject: Re: [RFC] choose symbol from given block's objfile first.
From: Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Pedro" =3D=3D Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Pedro> <pedantic mode>
> Pedro> Still, this wouldn't solve the case of loading the same
> Pedro> library twice... =A0Which 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. =A0That 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.