From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Stephen Smith <ischis2@home.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: The add-symbol-file command comment in the manual is confusing
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ACE0BEC.E064FDC@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AB8D3B7.1C9C2E51@home.com>
Just FYI,
This sounds like our first (?) Doco bug :-) As for your questions,
others are definitly more qualified to comment.
Andrew
Stephen Smith wrote:
>
> The add-symbol-file symbol file command has the following prose in the manual:
>
> add-symbol-file filename address [ -readnow ] [ -mapped ]
> The add-symbol-file command reads additional symbol table information from the file filename. You would use this
> command when filename has been dynamically
> loaded (by some other means) into the program that is running. address should be the memory address at which the
> file has been loaded; GDB cannot figure this out for itself.
> You can specify address as an expression. The symbol table of the file filename is added to the symbol table
> originally read with the symbol-file command. You can use
> the add-symbol-file command any number of times; the new symbol data thus read keeps adding to the old. To discard
> all old symbol data instead, use the
> symbol-file command. add-symbol-file does not repeat if you press RET after using it. You can use the `-mapped' and
> `-readnow' options just as with the
> symbol-file command, to change how GDB manages the symbol table information for filename.
>
> Several questions
> 1) What is the difference between useing and not using the -mapped command? Maybe I should ask first what is the use
> of the mapped switch?
>
> 2) The quote says that "You can specify address as an expression". How would you do that? And just a curriosity, how
> would you figure out the address to use?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-06 11:33 UTC|newest]
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2001-03-21 15:59 Stephen Smith
2001-04-06 11:33 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-04-06 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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