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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Enhance GDB to break inside DSO init code
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 07:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7494-Sat24Jul2004105517+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040723202447.GM20596@gnat.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:24:47 -0700)

> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:24:47 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
> 
> For more details, you can refer to:
> 
>         http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-07/msg00030.html
> 
> The trick, as explained in the message above, is to stop on syssgi()
> exit notifications until we can detect that rld has been mapped in
> memory by finding the __dbx_link symbol. [...]

Why, oh why do people go to such great lengths to explain this in a
mail message and/or in the comments to the code, but not as a patch to
gdbint.texinfo?  Why not invest a small additional effort (Texinfo
markup) to improve our documentation together with fixing a bug?

Sigh.

Thanks for the patch.  (I cannot approve it, though.)


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-24  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-23 20:24 Joel Brobecker
2004-07-24  7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-07-24 15:01   ` Joel Brobecker
2004-07-24 17:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-06 18:31 ` Joel Brobecker
2004-08-19  7:55 ` Joel Brobecker
2004-08-24 23:45 ` Kevin Buettner
2004-08-27 13:39   ` Joel Brobecker

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