Re: [PATCH] Add "set debug minsyms" command

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 11:43:18 -0500
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, jhb@freebsd.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > The manual documents the values for "set debug symtab-create".  I think
> > a patch is indeed needed since you added a new value.
> 
> Actually that value is already used and documented:
> 
> Turns on or off display of debugging messages related to symbol table 
> creation. The default is 0 (off). A value of 1 provides basic 
> information. A value greater than 1 provides more verbose information.
> 
> > Also I was wondering why not just use "maint print msymbols".
> 
> Because I didn't know about it :).  Do you think the new debugging 
> output is redundant and should be removed?  It's the same data (minimal 
> symbols), but in a different order.  With "set debug symtab-create", 
> they are shown in the order they are provided by the symbol reader (same 
> order as in the file usually), whereas "maint print msymbols" shows them 
> as saved in GDB's memory, sorted by address.  I think that the "set 
> debug symtab-create" may be useful when debugging the symbol reader, 
> whereas "maint print msymbols" may be useful when debugging lookups.

Btw, when I "set debug symtab-create 1" (or even a very large value),
I see no symbols, just the files from which those symbols are loaded.
Where's the code that shows the symbols?  Could it be that this
happens only on ELF platforms?