From fe95c7871a83a7a161e18eda83ef860b693ac817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Snyder Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:37:12 +0000 Subject: 2001-12-26 Michael Snyder * gdb.texinfo (maint info sections): Document. --- gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 2 ++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+) (limited to 'gdb') diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 6c40ea4..c3bd47b 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2001-12-26 Michael Snyder + * gdb.texinfo (maint info sections): Document. + * gdb.texinfo (info proc): Comment out documentation for 'info proc' sub-options that are currently not implemented. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index d9a9b8b..6c90cc4 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -9347,6 +9347,53 @@ use by @value{GDBN}, and the files from which symbols were loaded. The command @code{help target} lists all possible targets rather than current ones. +@kindex maint info sections +@item maint info sections +Another command that can give you extra information about program sections +is @code{maint info sections}. In addition to the section information +displayed by @code{info files}, this command displays the flags and file +offset of each section in the executable and core dump files. In addition, +@code{maint info sections} provides the following command options (which +may be arbitrarily combined): + +@table @code +@item ALLOBJ +Display sections for all loaded object files, including shared libraries. +@item @var{sections} +Display info only for named var{sections}. +@item @var{section-flags} +Display info only for sections for which @var{section-flags} are true. +The section flags that @value{GDBN} currently knows about are: +@table @code +@item ALLOC +Section will have space allocated in the process when loaded. +Set for all sections except those containing debug information. +@item LOAD +Section will be loaded from the file into the child process memory. +Set for pre-initialized code and data, clear for @code{.bss} sections. +@item RELOC +Section needs to be relocated before loading. +@item READONLY +Section cannot be modified by the child process. +@item CODE +Section contains executable code only. +@tem DATA +Section contains data only (no executable code). +@item ROM +Section will reside in ROM. +@item CONSTRUCTOR +Section contains data for constructor/destructor lists. +@item HAS_CONTENTS +Section is not empty. +@item NEVER_LOAD +An instruction to the linker to not output the section. +@item COFF_SHARED_LIBRARY +A notification to the linker that the section contains +COFF shared library information. +@item IS_COMMON +Section contains common symbols. +@end table +@end table @end table All file-specifying commands allow both absolute and relative file names -- cgit v1.1