From: Jan Vrany <jan@vrany.io>
To: Matthew Rinaldi <mjrinal@g.clemson.edu>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Adding user-defined symbols to GDB
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:25:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbfd87283aea7af635a197b21d7a93db0694cd8.camel@vrany.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfHfb8MDunW30KEd@ephemeral>
Hi,
On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 18:55 -0500, Matthew Rinaldi via Gdb wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a list of symbols that I have parsed out from a section within
> the binary. The data is not in any standard symbol table format. I have
> extracted the symbol's name and address. I want to add these symbols to
> GDB, but it is non-trivial. The solutions that I have seen for adding
> new user-defined symbols do not look ideal for a seemingly simple task.
>
> Example: https://github.com/mahaloz/decomp2gef/blob/main/decomp2gef.py#L247
>
> Is it possible to have a feature/command where the user could add
> symbols directly to GDB without the use of an objfile?
>
> I brought it up with Simon Marchi, and he said the following:
> > But off-hand, I don't see why this wouldn't be possible. Each objfile
> > could have a list of user-defined symbols, that lookup_symbol_in_objfile
> > would search in addition to the other regular methods.
>
I'm working in context of (language) VMs and have similar problem.
I have all my support code written in Python so it'd be nice if I could
do this kind of thing also from Python (as opposed to using "jit-reader"
interface to do this part or generating elf/PE/coff).
Maybe we can provide Python API similar to one of jit-reader to allow
one to build a symtab(s) and add them to (either existing of freshly
created) objfiles? We can provide "gdb.SymtabBuilder" python object to build
a symtab and then "install" it into objfile just like finalize_symtab()
does in jit.c (perhaps we can factor out some common code).
Jan
> Thank you,
> Matthew Rinaldi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-26 23:55 Matthew Rinaldi
2022-01-27 1:53 ` Sterling Augustine
2022-01-28 16:25 ` Jan Vrany [this message]
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