From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Document how GDB searches for files when using -s, -e, and -se options
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:40:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220621084043.49043b1d@f35-zws-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220603170443.192296-1-kevinb@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 10:04:43 -0700
Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
> ---
> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> index 5f09f3a1433..aad7c79c248 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.
> --
> 2.35.3
>
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2022-06-03 17:04 Kevin Buettner
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2022-06-21 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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