From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18197 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2004 07:56:49 -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 18181 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2004 07:56:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aragorn.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.23) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Jul 2004 07:56:48 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.148.60]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with ESMTP id DWZ72911; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:56:43 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 07:56:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Joel Brobecker Message-Id: <7494-Sat24Jul2004105517+0300-eliz@gnu.org> CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20040723202447.GM20596@gnat.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:24:47 -0700) Subject: Re: [RFA] Enhance GDB to break inside DSO init code Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20040723202447.GM20596@gnat.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00344.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:24:47 -0700 > From: Joel Brobecker > > 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.)