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| author | Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com> | 2013-04-05 09:15:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com> | 2013-10-29 10:56:19 +0100 |
| commit | 98297bf675da669930bacf6d0c08bc4d1a34df3e (patch) | |
| tree | 920191715defeeefa8adbe809b98b1c05ead173e /gdb | |
| parent | 63644780babdca3f40e1978a236b6cd78473c91b (diff) | |
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Documentation for the remove-symbol-file command.
2013-10-29 Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com>
* NEWS: Add description of the remove-symbol-file command.
gdb/doc
* gdb.texinfo (Commands to Specify Files): Add description
of the remove-symbol-file command.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/NEWS | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 26 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ maint set|show per-command time maint set|show per-command symtab Enable display of per-command gdb resource usage. +remove-symbol-file FILENAME +remove-symbol-file -a ADDRESS + Remove a symbol file added via add-symbol-file. The file to remove + can be identified by its filename or by an address that lies within + the boundaries of this symbol file in memory. + * New options set debug symfile off|on diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 32516ae..28e6ff9 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -16718,8 +16718,9 @@ section name and base address for that section. You can specify any The symbol table of the file @var{filename} is added to the symbol table originally read with the @code{symbol-file} command. You can use the @code{add-symbol-file} command any number of times; the new symbol data -thus read keeps adding to the old. To discard all old symbol data -instead, use the @code{symbol-file} command without any arguments. +thus read is kept in addition to the old. + +Changes can be reverted using the command @code{remove-symbol-file}. @cindex relocatable object files, reading symbols from @cindex object files, relocatable, reading symbols from @@ -16757,6 +16758,27 @@ way. @code{add-symbol-file} does not repeat if you press @key{RET} after using it. +@kindex remove-symbol-file +@item remove-symbol-file @var{filename} +@item remove-symbol-file -a @var{address} +Remove a symbol file added via the @code{add-symbol-file} command. The +file to remove can be identified by its @var{filename} or by an @var{address} +that lies within the boundaries of this symbol file in memory. Example: + +@smallexample +(gdb) add-symbol-file /home/user/gdb/mylib.so 0x7ffff7ff9480 +add symbol table from file "/home/user/gdb/mylib.so" at + .text_addr = 0x7ffff7ff9480 +(y or n) y +Reading symbols from /home/user/gdb/mylib.so...done. +(gdb) remove-symbol-file -a 0x7ffff7ff9480 +Remove symbol table from file "/home/user/gdb/mylib.so"? (y or n) y +(gdb) +@end smallexample + + +@code{remove-symbol-file} does not repeat if you press @key{RET} after using it. + @kindex add-symbol-file-from-memory @cindex @code{syscall DSO} @cindex load symbols from memory |