From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: New warning in GDB 7.5
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208182149.q7ILnLb3017336@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837gsvewyh.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:01:26 +0300)
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:01:26 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:55:43 -0700
> > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >
> > > These come from the following 2 lines in src/.gdbinit:
> > >
> > > # Force loading of symbols, enough to give us VALBITS etc.
> > > set main
> > > # With some compilers, we need this to give us struct Lisp_Symbol etc.:
> > > set Fmake_symbol
> > > The comments explain why they are needed.
> >
> > Are these really doing anything?
>
> Yes. They force GDB to read the symbol table of a couple of object
> files, so the symbols from those files are known to GDB. That is
> needed for several commands in the file to work right from the start
> of the debugging session.
Sounds like a workaround for a bug in GDB to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-18 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-18 20:03 Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-18 20:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-18 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-18 21:49 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2012-08-19 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 4:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-19 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 18:07 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-19 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 18:33 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-08-19 18:33 ` Mark Kettenis
2012-08-19 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 19:11 ` Mark Kettenis
2012-08-19 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 14:24 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-20 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 17:07 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-20 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 15:01 ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-20 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 17:28 ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-20 18:03 ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-20 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-20 19:22 ` Tom Tromey
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