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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: New "info auxv" command and $auxv variable?
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FA80508.6030601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031104165525.GA2599@nevyn.them.org>

> But why stop there?  What about a builtin $auxv variable, a struct, vis:
>> 
>> 	(gdb) print $auxv
>> 	$1 = { entry = 0x1234, ... }
>> 
>> Oh, and I guess:
>> 
>> 	(gdb) interpreter mi --info-auxv
>> 	^ok,result={entry="0x1234",...}
>> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> I don't know if there's enough utility to bother doing this, though...
> the only thing likely to be generally useful is the entry point (and
> maybe the vsyscall address).

If we start making the CLI more usable by making this stuff available 
people might start using it :-)

Anyway, the MI stuff is almost free (the code is common).  The $auxv 
variable is a bit tricky but still ok.  Could just add $entrypoint?

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-04 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-04 16:46 Andrew Cagney
2003-11-04 16:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-04 19:59   ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-11-04 20:02     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-04 20:15       ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-04 20:17         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-04 20:39           ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-05  6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii

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