Re: MI: -file-list-exec-source-files

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi at cox dot net>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:37:23PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:
> > The command "-file-list-exec-source-files" often (always?) prints out each
> > file twice:
> >
> > -file-list-exec-source-files
> > ^done,files=[{file="myprog.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprog.c"},{file="myprint.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprint.c"},{file="myprint.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprint.c"},{file="myprog.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprog.c"}]
> >
> > Looking at the code I had hoped that one cane from the symbol table and the
> > other from the partial symbol table but in fact, when I try it, they both
> > come from the partial symbol table.  When the program being debugged has lots
> > of source files (1000's) this is very wasteful, so I would like to make this
> > command just print out each file once.  Before I do I'd like to ask:
> >
> > Why does the partial symbol table have duplicate copies?
> >
> > Is it safe to assume that duplicates will occur consecutively?
> 
> I think I understand why header files get duplicated, but why .c files
> would, too, I don't know.  If you can figure it out, let me know.  (So
> I certainly don't know whether they will always appear consecutively.)

I believe this has the same output as 'info sources', so you may want to
changes that as well?

Bob Rossi