Re: Display libc function names instead of address ?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-18T01:45:31Z

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:26:05PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:45:59PM +0200, Victor STINNER wrote:
> > Le jeudi 16 juin 2005 Ã  11:19 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz a Ã©crit :
> > > Thanks for checking! That's output from objdump, right? It doesn't
> > > seem to work for me in GDB, just in objdump. But perhaps I can figure
> > > out where to wire it in.
> >
> > Yep, it's in objdump. I think that you just have to update bfd and
> > opcodes libraries, no ?
>
> No - GDB also needs a change.
>
> This has been on my todo list for months, ever since objdump gained
> support. Here's an implementation - the patch applies to GDB CVS.
> Elena, is this patch OK?
>
> Tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu. It leaves a stray if (1) to minimize the
> size of the diff; I would remove that as an obvious followup.

Hi Elena,

Have you had a chance to look at this patch? The original report is
here:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2005-06/msg00166.html

The patch is here:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-06/msg00220.html

And an example of it working is here:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2005-06/msg00174.html

> 2005-06-16 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
>
> * elfread.c (elf_symtab_read): Add number_of_symbols and
> symbol_table as arguments. Do not load the symbol table
> here.
> (elf_symfile_read): Load the static and dynamic symbol tables
> here, before calling elf_symtab_read. Also load any synthetic
> symbols and process those.