From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22120 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2004 13:57:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22113 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 13:57:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 13:57:12 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AvGa7-0007On-38; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:57:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: fnf@redhat.com Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix gdb.base/gdb1250.exp to work when abort() is in a shared library Message-ID: <20040223135711.GA28393@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: fnf@redhat.com, Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20040223060451.25A2C4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <200402222326.33562.fnf@ninemoons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402222326.33562.fnf@ninemoons.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00632.txt.bz2 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:26:33PM -0700, Fred Fish wrote: > On Sunday 22 February 2004 23:04, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > > On native i686-pc-linux-gnu, this used to work and then stopped > > working with a PLT optimization in binutils HEAD. > > Thanks for the history on why this doesn't currently work. Most of my > shared library work with gdb was from way back in the days when I'm > pretty sure that you couldn't set breakpoints on symbols in shared > libraries that had not yet been loaded, but perhaps I'm > misremembering. > > Perhaps it would make sense to go ahead and install this change and > then have a separate test that specifically checks that gdb can set a > breakpoint on symbols expected to be in a shared library. I believe that Jeff submitted a patch to use pending breakpoints in this test, which also fixes the issue. Did that get lost? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer