From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gdb: display a symbol more often in multi-file list output
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:28:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0d184d030ca111c6adb6a857f7184913ea1dc29.1763461561.git.aburgess@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1763461561.git.aburgess@redhat.com>
I noticed that when a command line 'list foo.c:10' displays multiple
files, the symbol would always be shown as "???", e.g.:
file: "/tmp/foo.c", line number: 10, symbol: "???"
this is because, when the symtab_and_line is created for the
'foo.c:10', the pc and symbol are never filled in.
In this commit, I propose that, when we decide that the above header
line needs to be printed, we should attempt to lookup a symbol for the
relevant line, and if one is found, we can use that.
The symbol lookup is done by first calling find_pc_for_line, and then
using find_symbol_for_pc to find a suitable symbol.
---
gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c | 8 ++++++++
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/list-multi-source.exp | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
index 300b77dbafe..4534c670730 100644
--- a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
+++ b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
@@ -2174,6 +2174,14 @@ print_sal_location (const symtab_and_line &sal)
const char *sym_name = NULL;
if (sal.symbol != NULL)
sym_name = sal.symbol->print_name ();
+ else if (CORE_ADDR line_pc;
+ find_pc_for_line (sal.symtab, sal.line, &line_pc))
+ {
+ struct symbol *sym = find_symbol_for_pc (line_pc);
+ if (sym != nullptr)
+ sym_name = sym->print_name ();
+ }
+
gdb_printf (_("file: \"%s\", line number: %ps, symbol: \"%s\"\n"),
symtab_to_filename_for_display (sal.symtab),
styled_string (line_number_style.style (),
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/list-multi-source.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/list-multi-source.exp
index 7809167bd0f..33bd49ad14b 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/list-multi-source.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/list-multi-source.exp
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ set last_linenum [expr {$linenum + 4}]
# List using FILE:LINE for a filename that is ambiguous.
gdb_test "list foo.c:$linenum" \
[multi_line \
- "file: \"\[^\r\n\]+/a/foo.c\", line number: $linenum, symbol: \"\[^\r\n\]+\"" \
+ "file: \"\[^\r\n\]+/a/foo.c\", line number: $linenum, symbol: \"get_value_common\"" \
"$first_linenum\\s+\[^\r\n\]+" \
".*" \
"$linenum\\s+[string_to_regexp {return 3; /* List this line. */}]" \
".*" \
"$last_linenum\\s+\[^\r\n\]+" \
- "file: \"\[^\r\n\]+/b/foo.c\", line number: $linenum, symbol: \"\[^\r\n\]+\"" \
+ "file: \"\[^\r\n\]+/b/foo.c\", line number: $linenum, symbol: \"get_value_common\"" \
"$first_linenum\\s+\[^\r\n\]+" \
".*" \
"$linenum\\s+[string_to_regexp {return -3; /* List this line. */}]" \
--
2.47.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-18 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-18 10:28 [PATCH 0/2] Fix regression in 'list' command Andrew Burgess
2025-11-18 10:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: fix 'list' for multiple source file results Andrew Burgess
2025-11-18 10:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2025-11-18 14:28 ` Andrew Burgess
2025-11-18 10:28 ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2025-11-19 10:32 ` [PATCHv2 0/2] Fix regression in 'list' command Andrew Burgess
2025-11-19 10:32 ` [PATCHv2 1/2] gdb: fix 'list' for multiple source file results Andrew Burgess
2025-12-04 16:48 ` Tom Tromey
2025-12-05 10:50 ` Andrew Burgess
2025-12-04 20:18 ` Kevin Buettner
2025-12-05 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-11-19 10:32 ` [PATCHv2 2/2] gdb: display a symbol more often in multi-file list output Andrew Burgess
2025-12-04 16:53 ` Tom Tromey
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