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Re: [PATCH][gdb/python] Add interface to access minimal_symbols

From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries at suse dot de>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>, Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:30:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH][gdb/python] Add interface to access minimal_symbols
References: <20181004211115.GA31056@delia> <39c4336d-c749-6f79-5a29-0b764fc4935e@ericsson.com> <211c4746-389a-93b7-faf9-c8f9b6245541@suse.de>

On 2018-10-31 12:59, Tom de Vries wrote:

AFAIU, the purpose of repr is to print a unique representation, and
distinct symbols can have the same name, so I went for:
...
<gdb.MinSymbol name=%s filename=%s objfile=%s>
...
for local symbols, dropping the filename=%s part for local symbols.


Thanks, that make sense.

The patch looks good to me, but since adding some new Python API is kindof a big deal (we are stuck with it after), I'd really like if Philand/or Tom could give their opinions. Especially since I remember Philmentioning he had other plans for minimal symbols...


Simon

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