Status of -symbol-type MI command?

Status of -symbol-type MI command?

[Ashley Pittman]

Hi,

I'm the maintainer of a tool for inspecting parallel programs
(MPI/Beowulf type batch processing) which amongst other things is built
on top of gdb.

I use the MI interface to interact with gdb which by and large works
well.  I've recently been trying to tighten integration and have
discovered that the -symbol-type command doesn't seem to exist, it's
referenced in old copies of the documentation however appears to have
been dropped.  The corresponding ptype command does work however.  Can
anybody tell me what command supersedes it and how I should access the
information?

Locally I'm testing with 7.0-debian and 6.6-45.fc8rh however I don't
have control over what version my users run with.

Ashley,

-- 

Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.

Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing
http://padb.pittman.org.uk

Re: Status of -symbol-type MI command?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Pittman <ashley@pittman.co.uk> writes:

Ashley> I've recently been trying to tighten integration and have
Ashley> discovered that the -symbol-type command doesn't seem to exist,
Ashley> it's referenced in old copies of the documentation however
Ashley> appears to have been dropped.

It was documented but never implemented.  All we did was drop it from
the docs.

Ashley> The corresponding ptype command does work however.  Can anybody
Ashley> tell me what command supersedes it and how I should access the
Ashley> information?

If ptype works for you, I guess that is the way :-)

Otherwise it is just open: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8143
I guess you could write a patch to implement -symbol-type.

Tom

Re: Status of -symbol-type MI command?

[Ashley Pittman]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:59 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Pittman <ashley@pittman.co.uk> writes:
> 
> Ashley> I've recently been trying to tighten integration and have
> Ashley> discovered that the -symbol-type command doesn't seem to exist,
> Ashley> it's referenced in old copies of the documentation however
> Ashley> appears to have been dropped.
> 
> It was documented but never implemented.  All we did was drop it from
> the docs.

Ok, thanks.

> Ashley> The corresponding ptype command does work however.  Can anybody
> Ashley> tell me what command supersedes it and how I should access the
> Ashley> information?
> 
> If ptype works for you, I guess that is the way :-)

I could make it work but it would be far from ideal.

I've been reading the docs a bit more, it seems the -var-create command
can provide the functionality I want (and more), it'll take a little
more coding on my part but appears a much superior way of doing things.

Ashley,

Ps, reading through the list I found a reference to this page, perhaps
you would be so kind as to add a link for me?  The project homepage is
linked to in my sig http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB%20Front%20Ends

-- 

Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.

Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing
http://padb.pittman.org.uk