This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
[PATCH 3/3] Documentation for the remove-symbol-file command.
- From: Nicolas Blanc <nicolas dot blanc at intel dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Nicolas Blanc <nicolas dot blanc at intel dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:52:01 +0200
- Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation for the remove-symbol-file command.
- References: <1366098721-18302-1-git-send-email-nicolas dot blanc at intel dot com>
2013-04-05 Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com>
gdb/doc:
* gdb.texinfo (Commands to Specify Files): Added description
of the remove-symbol-file command.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com>
---
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index bf7e25e..296b7d1 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -16248,8 +16248,10 @@ 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 keeps adding to the old.
+
+Changes can be reverted using the command @code{remove-symbol-file},
+which takes as parameter the load address of the file to remove.
@cindex relocatable object files, reading symbols from
@cindex object files, relocatable, reading symbols from
@@ -16287,6 +16289,15 @@ 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{address}
+The @code{remove-symbol-file} command removes all symbol information about
+the file loaded at @var{address}. @var{address} must be an expression that
+represents the load address of a file added by the user via the
+@code{add-symbol-file} command.
+
+@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
--
1.7.6.5