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"""
mbed SDK
Copyright (c) 2011-2013 ARM Limited

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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Utility to find which libraries could define a given symbol
"""
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from os.path import join, splitext
from os import walk
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


OBJ_EXT = ['.o', '.a', '.ar']


def find_sym_in_lib(sym, obj_path):
    contain_symbol = False

    out = Popen(["nm", "-C", obj_path], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE).communicate()[0]
    for line in out.splitlines():
            tokens = line.split()
            n = len(tokens)
            if n == 2:
                sym_type = tokens[0]
                sym_name = tokens[1]
            elif n == 3:
                sym_type = tokens[1]
                sym_name = tokens[2]
            else:
                continue

            if sym_type == "U":
                # This object is using this symbol, not defining it
                continue

            if sym_name == sym:
                contain_symbol = True

    return contain_symbol


def find_sym_in_path(sym, dir_path):
    for root, _, files in walk(dir_path):
        for file in files:

            _, ext = splitext(file)
            if ext not in OBJ_EXT: continue

            path = join(root, file)
            if find_sym_in_lib(sym, path):
                print path


if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = ArgumentParser(description='Find Symbol')
    parser.add_argument('-s', '--sym',  required=True,
                        help='The symbol to be searched')
    parser.add_argument('-p', '--path',  required=True,
                        help='The path where to search')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    find_sym_in_path(args.sym, args.path)