Re: Looking for a gdb function to handle alias addresses

Paul Koning
2003-12-31T15:26:36Z

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

Daniel> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:19:57PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
>> If this doesn't currently exist, could anyone offer hints as to
>> where such a beast could be added (and what form, roughly, it
>> should take)?

Daniel> I can't imagine how you would do this. You'd need everywhere
Daniel> that does symbol lookups to apply your theoretical method, at
Daniel> the very least.

So I take it the function I need doesn't exist at the moment.

Should I interpret your comment as "don't even think about doing this,
it's too ugly" or "sure you can do this but you'll have to insert the
hook in a lot of places" ?

If the latter, is another gdbarch function hook the right way?

paul