From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1424 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2004 01:26:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1417 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2004 01:26:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao03.cox.net) (68.1.17.242) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Feb 2004 01:26:54 -0000 Received: from white ([68.9.64.121]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040216012653.ORS2192.lakemtao03.cox.net@white> for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:26:53 -0500 Received: from bob by white with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AsXXB-0000qi-00 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:26:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:26:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [MI] -file-list-exec-source-files Message-ID: <20040216012652.GA3258@white> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20040213012946.GB4476@white> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040213012946.GB4476@white> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00148.txt.bz2 What do I have to do to get some feedback on this subject? On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:29:46PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to implement -file-list-exec-source-files for some > time now. So far the command outputs the filename and fullname for each > symtab and psymtab. The fullname part only get's output if GDB knows > what it is. > > The problem is, I recently discovered that the fullname can only be > retrieved from the symtab, it can't be retrieved with just a psymtab. > The reason is because the symtab has a 'dirname' member, which is > necessary in finding the absolute path to a source file. Obviously I > can't read in all the symtabs just to get the fullname for each psymtab. > > So, I have 2 solutions, > 1. Modify the psytmab to also have the 'dirname'. Which seems > difficult. Although I do think this is the best solution. (Not knowing > to much about psymtabs and symtabs) > > 2. Change -file-list-exec-source-file to receive an optional filename, > which when doing this causes GDB to read in the symtab associated with > the psymtab. Then the fullname can be retrieved. > > I believe option 2 is how the CLI works. > If you do > list foo.c:1 > info source > I am sure this reads in the symtab for foo.c and then it knows how to > get the fullpath. I don't really like this solution that much, so I > think it would be better to add the 'dirname' to the psymtab. > > Any suggestions? > If your interested in poking around to see where symtab->dirname gets > set, look around buildsym.c:975. Does anyone know if there would be an > easy way into getting dirname set into the psymtab? > > Thanks, > Bob Rossi