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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:50:00 -0000
From: David Lamy-Charrier <david.lamy@gmail.com>
Reply-To: David Lamy-Charrier <david.lamy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Convenience variable for filename in add-symbol-file not expanded
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Dieter,

Thanks for your response, but your solution allows to expand
convenience variable used
for section address parameter, I want to expand a convenience variable
for the filename parameter, so instead of value_as_address() it should
be a kind of value_as_string...

Regards,
David


On 9/29/05, Ruppert <dieter_ruppert@siemens.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Does anyone know if a patch exists for that ?
> >If not, could you give me some hints to implement it (any
> >parse_and_eval_string or equivalent i can use...) ?
> >
>
> If you can't find a more general solution:
> I got this working with the following local hack in
> parse-and_eval_address (this was gdb-6.1):
>
>     CORE_ADDR addr;
>     if (exp[0] =3D=3D '$')
>     {
>
>         struct value* valx;
>         valx =3D value_of_internalvar(lookup_internalvar(&exp[1]));
>         if (TYPE_CODE( VALUE_TYPE(valx)) !=3D TYPE_CODE_INT)
>           error("Invalid type given as section address.");
>         addr =3D value_as_address(valx);
>     }
>     else
>     {
>
>      ... the current code goes here
>
>
> HTH
>
> regards
> d.ruppert
> dieter_ruppert@siemens.com
>
>