Re: [PATCH PR gdb/18071] TLS variables can't be resolved on aarch64-linux-gnu

[Wei-min Pan <weimin dot pan at oracle dot com>]

On 3/24/2018 12:52 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2018-03-24 15:45, Wei-min Pan wrote:
> > Will submit a revised patch which
> >
> >  (1) calls lookup_bound_minimal_symbol in info_address_command() and
> >  (2) corrects the doc for lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile() in 
> > minsyms.h.
>
> I did (2) when pushing your patch (I just removed the mention about it 
> only looking through linkage names).  But I think the idea now would 
> be to get rid of lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile, since it's 
> basically the same as lookup_bound_minimal_symbol, isn't it?

Big difference is  lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile(char *name) only 
searches the ordinary hash table for "name"
while lookup_bound_minimal_symbol(char *name) does both the ordinary 
hash table  and the demangled hash table.


> Simon