Python Symbol API question/weirdness

[Pedro Alves]

On 06/16/2017 09:55 PM, Evan Driscoll wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea what might be going on? I think I don't
> actually need this to work, but I am curious what is going on. Maybe
> something with symbol aliases?

I think that you're seeing this because the Python API is only aware
of debug info symbols, while "raise" etc. above in your examples
are minimal symbols (i.e., elf symbols), as hinted by:

  $2 = (<text variable, no debug info> *) 0x7ffff7a433f0 <__GI_raise>
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sounds like exposing minsyms to the Python layer would be useful.
I'm actually surprised it doesn't already expose them somehow.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves