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+<h3 class="section">9.2 Location Specifications</h3>
+<a name="index-specifying-location"></a>
+<a name="index-locspec"></a>
+<a name="index-source-location"></a>
+<a name="index-code-location"></a>
+
+<a name="index-location-spec"></a>
+<p>Several <small>GDB</small> commands accept arguments that specify a location
+or locations of your program&rsquo;s code. Many times locations are
+specified using a source line number, but they can also be specified
+by a function name, an address, a label, etc. The different
+forms of specifying a location that <small>GDB</small> recognizes are
+collectively known as forms of <em>location specification</em>, or
+<em>location spec</em>. This section documents the forms of specifying
+locations that <small>GDB</small> recognizes.
+</p>
+<a name="index-location-resolution"></a>
+<a name="index-resolution-of-location-spec"></a>
+<p>When you specify a location, <small>GDB</small> needs to find the place in
+your program, known as <em>code location</em>, that corresponds to the
+given location spec. We call this process of finding actual code
+locations corresponding to a location spec <em>location resolution</em>.
+</p>
+<p>A concrete code location in your program is uniquely identifiable by a
+set of several attributes: its source line number, the name of its
+source file, the fully-qualified and prototyped function in which it
+is defined, and an instruction address. Because each inferior has its
+own address space, the inferior number is also a necessary part of
+these attributes.
+</p>
+<p>By contrast, location specs you type will many times omit some of
+these attributes. For example, it is customary to specify just the
+source line number to mean a line in the current source file, or
+specify just the basename of the file, omitting its directories. In
+other words, a location spec is usually incomplete, a kind of
+blueprint, and <small>GDB</small> needs to complete the missing attributes
+by using the implied defaults, and by considering the source code and
+the debug information available to it. This is what location
+resolution is about.
+</p>
+<p>The resolution of an incomplete location spec can produce more than a
+single code location, if the spec doesn&rsquo;t allow distinguishing between
+them. Here are some examples of situations that result in a location
+spec matching multiple code locations in your program:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li> The location spec specifies a function name, and there are several
+functions in the program which have that name. (To distinguish
+between them, you can specify a fully-qualified and prototyped
+function name, such as <code>A::func(int)</code> instead of just
+<code>func</code>.)
+
+</li><li> The location spec specifies a source file name, and there are several
+source files in the program that share the same name, for example
+several files with the same basename in different subdirectories. (To
+distinguish between them, specify enough leading directories with the
+file name.)
+
+</li><li> For a C<tt>++</tt> constructor, the <small>GCC</small> compiler generates several
+instances of the function body, used in different cases, but their
+source-level names are identical.
+
+</li><li> For a C<tt>++</tt> template function, a given line in the function can
+correspond to any number of instantiations.
+
+</li><li> For an inlined function, a given source line can correspond to several
+actual code locations with that function&rsquo;s inlined code.
+</li></ul>
+
+<p>Resolution of a location spec can also fail to produce a complete code
+location, or even fail to produce any code location. Here are some
+examples of such situations:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li> Some parts of the program lack detailed enough debug info, so the
+resolved code location lacks some attributes, like source file name
+and line number, leaving just the instruction address and perhaps also
+a function name. Such an incomplete code location is only usable in
+contexts that work with addresses and/or function names. Some
+commands can only work with complete code locations.
+
+</li><li> The location spec specifies a function name, and there are no
+functions in the program by that name, or they only exist in a
+yet-unloaded shared library.
+
+</li><li> The location spec specifies a source file name, and there are no
+source files in the program by that name, or they only exist in a
+yet-unloaded shared library.
+
+</li><li> The location spec specifies both a source file name and a source line
+number, and even though there are source files in the program that
+match the file name, none of those files has the specified line
+number.
+</li></ul>
+
+<p>Locations may be specified using three different formats: linespec
+locations, explicit locations, or address locations. The following
+subsections describe these formats.
+</p>
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+<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Linespec-Locations.html#Linespec-Locations" accesskey="1">Linespec Locations</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Linespec locations
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+<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Address-Locations.html#Address-Locations" accesskey="3">Address Locations</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Address locations
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