Re: Disambiguating symbols by module

Alexander Miloslavskiy via Gdb
2021-09-03T14:36:17Z

On 03.09.2021 17:31, Matt Rice wrote:
> Been a while since I've needed to do this, but IIRC you can just set a
> breakpoint using the symbol address too, like:
>
> (gdb) break *0x00007ffff6d7a3b0
>
> I don't know of or believe there is any nicer syntax like
> object_file.o:symbol_name, which one could imagine might be possible.

Thanks!

Right, currently in order to call 'ps()' I have to manually do the
following:

(gdb) info function ^ps$
Non-debugging symbols:
0x00007ffff6d7a3b0 ps

(gdb) call (void)0x00007ffff6d7a3b0()

That is, I manually find the address, then use it to call the function.

I'd like to avoid that extra first step somehow and have some
address-independent command.