Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add some linker namespaces conveniences

[Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>]

On 4/7/25 3:08 PM, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Mon,  7 Apr 2025 11:54:40 -0300
> Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> This series is a second step in improving the User Experience of
>> debugging inferiors with multiple namespaces. It adds 2 things to make
>> it more convenient for users to understand what the inferior is doing.
>>
>> The first patch adds convenience variables, specifically _active_namespaces
>> and _current_namespaces. These can be used to track where in the execution
>> of an inferior the user is, and could be used in breakpoint conditions
>> to stop at a specific namespace.
>>
>> The third patch adds a new command, "info namespaces", to help the user
>> check what solibs are loaded, and where. To make the patch more
>> readable, the second patch is a minor refactor of the command "info
>> sharedlibrary".
> I'm wondering if we want "namespaces" to mean "linker namespaces".  I
> can imagine someone adding a command to iterate over the
> DW_TAG_namespace entries in the available DWARF info and then print
> things regarding those entries.  That too could be a good (possibly
> better) candidate for a GDB "info namespaces" command.
>
> What I'm suggesting here is that we might want to add a qualifier to
> the command and related names, i.e. that the new command be named
> "info linker-namespaces" instead of just "info namespaces".  Likewise,
> add qualifiers for _active_namespaces and _current_namespaces.
This makes sense. I'm working on this change locally and will send a v2 
shortly.
>
> Kevin
>

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Guinevere Larsen
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