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From: Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 14:53:30 +0000
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Subject: Re: Disambiguating symbols by module
To: Alexander Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 2:35 PM Alexander Miloslavskiy
<alexandr.miloslavskiy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 03.09.2021 17:31, Matt Rice wrote:
> > Been a while since I've needed to do this, but IIRC you can just set a
> > breakpoint using the symbol address too, like:
> >
> > (gdb) break *0x00007ffff6d7a3b0
> >
> > I don't know of or believe there is any nicer syntax like
> > object_file.o:symbol_name, which one could imagine might be possible.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Right, currently in order to call 'ps()' I have to manually do the
> following:
>
> (gdb) info function ^ps$
> Non-debugging symbols:
> 0x00007ffff6d7a3b0  ps
>
> (gdb) call (void)0x00007ffff6d7a3b0()
>
> That is, I manually find the address, then use it to call the function.
>
> I'd like to avoid that extra first step somehow and have some
> address-independent command.

I don't really know of any satisfactory solution then...
The best workaround I can come up with is to put the address in a
convience variable (which could perhaps be automated with some python
scripts in your gdbinit, to gain some address independence).

(gdb) set $ps = 0x00007ffff6d7a3b0

With that, you can at least use:
(gdb) call (void)($ps)()

I haven't tried it, but if you look at
https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/MakeDoWithoutDebugInfo
Given that there is some probe support in gdb, maybe there is a way to
make use of
kprobe.module(NAME).function(FUNCTION) to get the address.