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From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
To: Alexander Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@gmail.com>
Cc: Reuben Thomas via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Disambiguating symbols by module
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 12:25:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPTJ0XFOUJcg6ZEohzYwoqudkvC=+LKSpxsKtLdjFw7edGuxbA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf00c04e-a606-a7f4-cfeb-7ee168c0c2cc@gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 4:49 PM Alexander Miloslavskiy via Gdb
<gdb@sourceware.org> wrote:
> Here, the symbol I want is a non-debugging symbol. This also means that
> I can't disambiguate it by the source file name.
>
> Is there a syntax to disambiguate the symbol?

The python API lets you do this:
gdb.lookup_objfile("libfoo").lookup_global_symbol("ps")

But I don't recall if you can call functions in the inferior from Python.

Christian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-03 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-02 20:48 Alexander Miloslavskiy
2021-09-03 14:31 ` Matt Rice
2021-09-03 14:35   ` Alexander Miloslavskiy
2021-09-03 14:53     ` Matt Rice
2021-09-03 14:57       ` Alexander Miloslavskiy
2021-09-03 16:06         ` Martin Simmons
2021-09-03 16:13           ` Alexander Miloslavskiy
2021-09-03 16:25 ` Christian Biesinger [this message]
2021-09-03 20:58   ` Alexander Miloslavskiy

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