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| author | Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> | 2022-06-02 15:26:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> | 2022-06-21 09:47:15 -0700 |
| commit | bfda149dc1b0376f8cb4c423790246794c7ee873 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b54883579da509407f87e0ff4476cbc5125d272 /gdb/doc | |
| parent | ec41dd75c866599fc03c390c6afb5736c159c0ff (diff) | |
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Document how GDB searches for files when using -s, -e, and -se options
GDB's documentation of the 'file' command says:
If you do not specify a directory and the file is not found in the
GDB working directory, GDB uses the environment variable PATH as a
list of directories to search, just as the shell does when looking
for a program to run.
The same is true for files specified via commandline options -s, -e,
and -se.
This commit adds a cross reference to the file command for these options.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index b3e995f..38ae249 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -962,6 +962,11 @@ If @value{GDBN} has not been configured to included core file support, such as for most embedded targets, then it will complain about a second argument and ignore it. +For the @samp{-s}, @samp{-e}, and @samp{-se} options, and their long +form equivalents, the method used to search the file system for the +symbol and/or executable file is the same as that used by the +@code{file} command. @xref{Files, ,file}. + Many options have both long and short forms; both are shown in the following list. @value{GDBN} also recognizes the long forms if you truncate them, so long as enough of the option is present to be unambiguous. |