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authorAndrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>2019-10-15 16:18:26 +0100
committerAndrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>2019-11-10 21:35:32 +0000
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gdb/python: Introduce gdb.lookup_static_symbols
If gdb.lookup_static_symbol is going to return a single symbol then it makes sense (I think) for it to return a context sensitive choice of symbol, that is the global static symbol that would be visible to the program at that point. However, if the user of the python API wants to instead get a consistent set of global static symbols, no matter where they stop, then they have to instead consider all global static symbols with a given name - there could be many. That is what this new API function offers, it returns a list (possibly empty) of all global static symbols matching a given name (and optionally a given symbol domain). gdb/ChangeLog: * python/py-symbol.c (gdbpy_lookup_static_symbols): New function. * python/python-internal.h (gdbpy_lookup_static_symbols): Declare new function. * python/python.c (python_GdbMethods): Add gdb.lookup_static_symbols method. * NEWS: Mention gdb.lookup_static_symbols. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.python/py-symbol.exp: Add test for gdb.lookup_static_symbols. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * python.texi (Symbols In Python): Add documentation for gdb.lookup_static_symbols. Change-Id: I1153b0ae5bcbc43b3dcf139043c7a48bf791e1a3
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@@ -1994,6 +1994,10 @@ Return the symbol corresponding to the given name (or None)." },
METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS,
"lookup_static_symbol (name [, domain]) -> symbol\n\
Return the static-linkage symbol corresponding to the given name (or None)." },
+ { "lookup_static_symbols", (PyCFunction) gdbpy_lookup_static_symbols,
+ METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS,
+ "lookup_static_symbols (name [, domain]) -> symbol\n\
+Return a list of all static-linkage symbols corresponding to the given name." },
{ "lookup_objfile", (PyCFunction) gdbpy_lookup_objfile,
METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS,