Make '{add-,}symbol-file' not care about the position of command line arguments
This is a bug that's been detected while doing the readnever work.
If you use 'symbol-file' or 'add-symbol-file', the position of each
argument passed to the command matters. This means that if you do:
(gdb) symbol-file -readnow /foo/bar
The symbol file specified will (correctly) have all of its symbols
read by GDB (because of the -readnow flag). However, if you do:
(gdb) symbol-file /foo/bar -readnow
GDB will silently ignore the -readnow flag, because it was specified
after the filename. This is not a good thing to do and may confuse
the user.
To address that, I've modified the argument parsing mechanisms of
symbol_file_command and add_symbol_file_command to be
"position-independent". I have also added one error call at the end
of add_symbol_file_command's argument parsing logic, which now clearly
complains if no filename has been specified. Both commands now
support the "--" option to stop argument processing.
This patch provides a testcase for both commands, in order to make
sure that the argument order does not matter. It has been
regression-tested on BuildBot.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* symfile.c (symbol_file_command): Call
'symbol_file_add_main_1' only after processing all command
line options.
(add_symbol_file_command): Modify logic to make arguments
position-independent.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/relocate.exp: Add tests to guarantee that arguments
to 'symbol-file' and 'add-symbol-file' can be
position-independent.