From: Shahab Vahedi <shahab.vahedi@gmail.com>
To: Wolfgang Wallner <wolfgang-wallner@gmx.at>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Removing old symbols when debugging code that relocates itself
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 00:13:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yo6p8oBdsUTmXanm@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d62143d5-9fba-2a17-8713-6c9fd0bcda94@gmx.at>
Hi Wolfgang,
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:14:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Wallner via Gdb wrote:
> It seems I can only remove the symbols that I have added with
> add-symbol-file, but not the initial ones ...
Maybe you could extract the symbol file [1] and then strip it away from
the binary [2]. This way, you have to use "add-symbol-file" to add it
in different stages and according to what you say you should be able
to remove it after each adding.
Cheers,
Shahab
[1]
$ objcopy --only-keep-debug uboot.bin uboot.sym
[2]
$ objcopy --strip-all uboot.bin uboot.strp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-25 22:13 UTC|newest]
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2022-05-25 21:14 Wolfgang Wallner
2022-05-25 22:13 ` Shahab Vahedi [this message]
2022-05-26 19:28 ` Wolfgang Wallner
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