From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6569 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2002 22:12:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6541 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 22:12:29 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: makita.cygnus.com: keiths owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:12:00 -0000 From: Keith Seitz X-X-Sender: To: Duane Ellis cc: Subject: Re: symbol with in disassembly window In-Reply-To: <200201042203.RAA13967@mercury.franklin.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-q1/txt/msg00023.txt.bz2 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Duane Ellis wrote: > > keiths> since this problem also presumably exists in gdb (right?). > > Most certianly, however there are times when > > A) you want the fully un-ambigious name (Even though it is 100+ chars > long) and thus I too am hestitant to change perminately. > > B) There are times though when a prefix or abeviated version is > enough, ie: > > someFunc(int,int,int,int,int ....: > Yes, but either way, gdb's "disassemble" command suffers the same problems and would benefit equally by such a change. > It seems that the gdb core function: > > print_address_symbolic() That was my thought, as well. This function is not under my control, though. You'll have to discuss changing it with the gdb folks. I am not disagreeing that the change would be good. I'm just disagreeing with changing it in insight alone. I think the proper place to do this (as you've pointed out) is in "core" gdb. Keith