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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-cvs@sourceware.org
Subject: [binutils-gdb] Document how GDB searches for files when using -s, -e, and -se options
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:47:58 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220621164758.85A623858C51@sourceware.org> (raw)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=bfda149dc1b0376f8cb4c423790246794c7ee873

commit bfda149dc1b0376f8cb4c423790246794c7ee873
Author: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jun 2 15:26:38 2022 -0700

    Document how GDB searches for files when using -s, -e, and -se options
    
    GDB's documentation of the 'file' command says:
    
        If you do not specify a directory and the file is not found in the
        GDB working directory, GDB uses the environment variable PATH as a
        list of directories to search, just as the shell does when looking
        for a program to run.
    
    The same is true for files specified via commandline options -s, -e,
    and -se.
    
    This commit adds a cross reference to the file command for these options.

Diff:
---
 gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index b3e995f166b..38ae249f62d 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -962,6 +962,11 @@ If @value{GDBN} has not been configured to included core file support,
 such as for most embedded targets, then it will complain about a second
 argument and ignore it.
 
+For the @samp{-s}, @samp{-e}, and @samp{-se} options, and their long
+form equivalents, the method used to search the file system for the
+symbol and/or executable file is the same as that used by the
+@code{file} command.  @xref{Files, ,file}.
+
 Many options have both long and short forms; both are shown in the
 following list.  @value{GDBN} also recognizes the long forms if you truncate
 them, so long as enough of the option is present to be unambiguous.


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