From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8863 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2007 21:18:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 8852 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Aug 2007 21:18:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from theory.danglingpointers.net (HELO mail.danglingpointers.net) (69.77.167.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:18:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.danglingpointers.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5354B30012F; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:18:00 -0000 From: jf To: Daniel Jacobowitz cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: adding comments/labels? In-Reply-To: <20070829211258.GA17600@caradoc.them.org> Message-ID: References: <20070829211258.GA17600@caradoc.them.org> X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: 6EB9 1EDB 07ED 2CBE AFCA BC3F E0EC C555 22C2 48B2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00252.txt.bz2 > > Not really. I think you should do it with objcopy, instead. Haven't > I suggested this to someone else recently on this list... ? Why would I want to do it with objcopy? I'm reversing a binary and I'd like a label so I don't single step into the same function every time, its that or try to remember the address of every function I've looked at. I'll just have to do it the hardway and cludge through the source and figure out where symbol resolution occurs. Thanks for the typical OSS/FS help ('no do it my way instead')