From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Make sym_read routines handle separate debug files
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091207203323.GA29440@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3638ia6ge.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:13:05PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> After I sent my note, I wondered about folks doing something like
> building an ELF executable, objcopy'ing it to some other format for
> running it, but continuing to use the ELF for debugging. Do people do
> that?
Yes, e.g. uClinux, but...
> If so then that would be a situation where the primary objfile could be
> of any type, but still have separate debug info.
then you just give GDB the ELF file. I've never seen a reference from
a non-ELF executable to ELF debug info.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-04 12:48 Tristan Gingold
2009-12-04 18:02 ` Tom Tromey
2009-12-07 10:50 ` Tristan Gingold
2009-12-07 20:13 ` Tom Tromey
2009-12-07 20:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-12-07 21:22 ` Tom Tromey
2009-12-08 10:57 ` Tristan Gingold
2009-12-08 16:54 ` Tom Tromey
2009-12-09 13:45 ` Tristan Gingold
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