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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:13:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:42:04PM +1030, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following script does not seem to work:
> 
> define load-ko-syms
>    path ./freebsd_46_i386/debug/export/kernel
>    set $file = linker_files.tqh_first
>    set $file = $file->link.tqe_next
>    if ($file == 0)
>         printf "No klds to load symbols for\n"
>    else
>         while ($file != 0)
>                 add-symbol-file $file->filename ($file->address + 
> $file->text_offs)
>                 printf "Loaded symbols for %s\n", $file->filename
>                 set $file = $file->link.tqe_next
>         end
>    end
> end
> 
> The loop works, but add-symbol-file seems to be called without the 
> convenience variables being expanded.
> 
> Have it got that right?
> 
> If so, what would be the first step to get them expanded?

add-symbol-file takes constants, not expressions - so variables are not
expanded.  This should probably change but it's not clear how, given
the parser...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer