Re: [PATCH] add-symbol-file-from-memory command

[Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>]

> - Would it work to completely replace
>   symbol_file_add_with_addrs_or_offsets's 'name' argument with the
>   abfd argument, and then just use bfd_get_filename?  It looks to me
>   like the only affect would be that the tilde-expanded, path-searched
>   filename would appear in messages, which seems like a good thing.

I don't see any problem with this.  I intentionally did not perturb other
callers, but it would be a simple change to have them call symfile_bfd_open
in their args.

> - Since the command isn't something that ordinary users are really
>   going to want themselves, but is more for the benefit of GDB
>   developers, should be a 'maint' subcommand?

I think it's in the same category of usefulness as add-symbol-file.



Thanks,
Roland