From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make '{add-,}symbol-file' not care about the position of command line arguments
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8tb9aqb.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b202e473-38f5-687e-eb37-e50cbe2174a0@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:48:55 +0000")
On Thursday, November 30 2017, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>> Does this push_back directly here mean that these
>>> two commands end up with different semantics?
>>>
>>> (gdb) add-symbol-file FILE 0 -s .text 0x1000
>>> (gdb) add-symbol-file -s .text 0x1000 FILE 0
>>
>> The arguments are printed in a different order, yes:
>>
>> (gdb) add-symbol-file -s .text 0x100 ./gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/relocate/relocate.o 0
>> add symbol table from file "./gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/relocate/relocate.o" at
>> .text_addr = 0x100
>> .text_addr = 0x0
>> (y or n) n
>> Not confirmed.
>> (gdb) add-symbol-file ./gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/relocate/relocate.o 0 -s .text 0x100
>> add symbol table from file "./gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/relocate/relocate.o" at
>> .text_addr = 0x0
>> .text_addr = 0x100
>> (y or n) n
>> Not confirmed.
>>
>>> Not sure that's a good idea.
>>
>> I'll work on it and make sure they're always printed in the same way.
>
> TBC, the worry was not really about the printing (that's minor),
> but what is the actual resulting .text address that the symbol file
> it loaded at in the end. But sounds like the printing order can
> be used as proxy for checking that. It's not as robust as
> actually loading the symbols and then checking what happened
> (with e.g., printing a symbol's address), but it's good
> enough.
Right, I got it.
The way I made it now, the address provided as .text will always be the
first to be set/printed, even if the user provides a "-s .text" later.
This maintains compatibility with the current way of doing things.
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-06 20:54 [RFC/RFA] Add support for the --readnever command-line option (DWARF only) Joel Brobecker
2016-07-12 14:27 ` Yao Qi
2016-10-04 18:07 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-23 0:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-23 12:09 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-23 17:21 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-23 17:29 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-24 4:54 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-24 13:18 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-24 20:27 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-27 19:13 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-29 0:59 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-29 12:23 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-23 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-23 19:36 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2016-10-04 18:06 ` [RFC/RFA] " Pedro Alves
2017-11-24 23:01 ` [PATCH v2] Add support for the --readnever command-line option Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-25 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-25 16:41 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-25 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-29 1:21 ` [PATCH v3] Add support for the readnever concept Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-29 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-29 12:25 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-29 18:43 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-29 21:45 ` [PATCH] Make 'symbol-file' not care about the position of command line arguments Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-29 22:26 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-29 22:42 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-29 23:15 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-30 0:08 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 0:34 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-30 4:07 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 4:25 ` [PATCH v2] Make '{add-,}symbol-file' " Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 10:57 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-30 12:38 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 12:49 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-30 13:06 ` Sergio Durigan Junior [this message]
2017-11-30 13:33 ` [PATCH v3] " Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 15:01 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-30 17:26 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 17:37 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-30 17:43 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 17:50 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-30 20:00 ` [PATCH v4] " Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-12-01 12:11 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-01 17:41 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-12-01 21:45 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-01 22:02 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 0:25 ` [PATCH v4] Add support for the readnever concept Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-30 11:53 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-01 4:35 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-12-01 12:43 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-01 17:19 ` Tom Tromey
2017-12-01 17:21 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-12-01 20:00 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-01 22:16 ` [PATCH v5] " Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-12-01 23:19 ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-02 2:31 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-12-02 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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