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Re: 'info symbol' equivalent in python?
On 03/19/2012 12:43 PM, Matt Rice wrote:
> 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)
Similar. I want the names of static/global variables, not functions.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function