how does gdb read type descriptions for structures

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:29:38AM +0200, Roul Oldenburger wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> most time I am only using gdb and most time via ddd but I have got a 
> question for gdb internals.
> 
> I am trying to reconstruct type descriptions for a tree of structures 
> from stabs debug informations included in executables.
> 
> Using for example 'ptype my_structure' in gdb delivers me components and 
> types of my_structure but it looks like gdb prints part of the source 
> code ... or does it evaluate its symbol tables or stabs information via 
> BFD directly?
> 
> Furthermore I need to know the offset/address of each component of each 
> substructure in the structure tree ... we are using quit complex 
> structures.
> 
> Using 'objdump --stabs' I will get all the information/ type 
> descriptions I need but I hope there is another way to retrieve this 
> information rather than working it out from the text in .stabstr.
> 
> How does gdb does it?

>From the debug info - i.e. the text in .stabstr.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer