From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25421 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2007 17:57:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 25413 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2007 17:57:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:57:37 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H3ykZ-00053f-J2; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:57:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: mathieu lacage Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb and dynamic loader namespaces Message-ID: <20070108175735.GA19412@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: mathieu lacage , gdb@sourceware.org References: <1168268998.21818.44.camel@garfield.inria.fr> <20070108151510.GA14359@nevyn.them.org> <1168274688.11508.2.camel@mathieu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1168274688.11508.2.camel@mathieu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00121.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 05:44:48PM +0100, mathieu lacage wrote: > > I'm not sure what gdb would really do with them either. It doesn't > > support multiple namespaces of symbols. > > The (probably naive) idea would be to merge them: they live in separate > address spaces so address lookups should be unique. name lookups, on the > other hand, could be non-unique but this is nothing new: gdb should > already be able to handle multiple answers for a single name lookup, > right ? Well, mostly it ignores the issue. We could handle them the same as dlopen which would probably be more useful than ignoring them entirely. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery