🕸️ load-symbols

A tiny GDB plugin that bravely ventures into the filesystem to bring you debug symbols from the depths of your .debug directories.

🤔 What is this?

load-symbols is a lightweight, no-nonsense GDB Python command that iterative loads symbol files from a directory and its subdirectories.

Got a pile of .debug, .so, or .sym files scattered like socks after laundry day? Let load-symbols pick them up and hand them to GDB like a loyal assistant with obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

💭 Inspired by

Your overflowing /glibc folder and the eternal struggle of:

"Why is GDB not showing any function names again?!"

Also, gdb can only load symbol file one by one through add-symbol-file, which is super low-efficiency.

🎯 Features

• Loads .debug, .so, .sym etc. symbol files into GDB
• Iterative walks directories like a bloodhound
• Gives you colorful, pwndbg-style, comforting output (debugging is painful enough already)
• Gracefully handles bad paths and unreadable files
• Won't judge your folder structure

🔖 Installation

git clone https://github.com/CuB3y0nd/load-symbols.git ~/load-symbols
echo "source ~/load-symbols/load-symbols.py" >> ~/.gdbinit

💥 Disclaimer

Do whatever you want with it. Just don't blame me if it loads the wrong symbols and your debugger starts quoting Nietzsche.

Have phun!