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Re: 'info symbol' equivalent in python?
On 3/19/12, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 06:34 AM, Hui Zhu wrote:
>> http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Symbols-In-Python.html#Symbols-In-Python
>>
>>
>> On 03/18/12 22:37, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> Is there a gdb python API for 'info symbol'?
>>>
>>
>
> These give lookup the symbol given a name. I want to lookup a symbol
> given an address (like 'info symbol').
sounds like you're looking for the block_for_pc and gdb.Block's
function attribute,
(gdb) py print repr(gdb.block_for_pc(0x0000000000400598).function)
<gdb.Symbol object at 0x7fb5ef615df0>
(gdb) py print gdb.block_for_pc(0x0000000000400598).function
main
(gdb)