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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: David Griffiths <dgriffiths@undo.io>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: How to do "info address" directly from python?
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvo4apo1.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA++j6c6+7cGUq=7B2Q7TBhX=p6qjqJYVOp=N=-g8ZW2iz+TmhQ@mail.gmail.com>	(David Griffiths's message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:16:41 +0100")

>>>>> "David" == David Griffiths <dgriffiths@undo.io> writes:

David> Hi, I can obtain the address of a non-debug symbol in python by doing:
David> gdb.execute("info address %s" % symbol, to_string=True)

David> and then parsing the result, but is there a way to obtain that information
David> directly using the python api? I've tried things like
David> gdb.lookup_global_symbol, gdb.lookup_type and gdb.parse_and_eval but none
David> of them return anything.

The Python API doesn't expose non-debug symbols yet.
In fact the whole symbol part of the API isn't really complete.
It's an area that could use some work.

David> I'd prefer not to use gdb.execute as it sometimes gets the output of the
David> command mixed up with the output of a preceding gdb.write.

That sounds like a bug worth filing.
Do you know how to reproduce it?

Tom


      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-08 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-27 12:16 David Griffiths
2018-07-27 12:41 ` Emiliano Testa
2018-08-08 14:39 ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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