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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>2024-04-23 09:23:02 -0400
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>2024-04-23 11:26:14 -0400
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gdb: move symbol_file_command declaration to symfile.h
Move it out of defs.h, the corresponding definition is in symfile.c. Change-Id: I984666c3bcd213f8574e9ec91462e1d61f77f16b Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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diff --git a/gdb/symfile.h b/gdb/symfile.h
index 6f8b441..a5b0c91 100644
--- a/gdb/symfile.h
+++ b/gdb/symfile.h
@@ -379,4 +379,20 @@ extern int readnow_symbol_files;
extern int readnever_symbol_files;
+/* This is the symbol-file command. Read the file, analyze its
+ symbols, and add a struct symtab to a symtab list. The syntax of
+ the command is rather bizarre:
+
+ 1. The function buildargv implements various quoting conventions
+ which are undocumented and have little or nothing in common with
+ the way things are quoted (or not quoted) elsewhere in GDB.
+
+ 2. Options are used, which are not generally used in GDB (perhaps
+ "set mapped on", "set readnow on" would be better)
+
+ 3. The order of options matters, which is contrary to GNU
+ conventions (because it is confusing and inconvenient). */
+
+extern void symbol_file_command (const char *, int);
+
#endif /* !defined(SYMFILE_H) */