From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26432 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2008 17:07:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 26322 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Nov 2008 17:07:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.45.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:06:22 +0000 Received: from wpaz21.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz21.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.85]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id mALH6KDb022005 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:06:20 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rvbk40.prod.google.com [10.140.87.40]) by wpaz21.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id mALH6Igg023533 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:06:18 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so992452rvb.17 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:06:18 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.208.17 with SMTP id f17mr408676rvg.74.1227287178082; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:06:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <5186.86.86.3.213.1227272244.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: too many "no debugging symbols found" messages from shared libs From: Doug Evans To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Mark Kettenis , brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00586.txt.bz2 On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:57:24 +0100 (CET) >> From: "Mark Kettenis" >> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" , brobecker@adacore.com, >> gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> >> Sorry I'm a bit late in this discussion, but I do really like the messages >> about missing symbol info for shared libraries. To me they provide an >> important hint that my debugging session is likely to run into problems at >> some point. > > You can still have that, just set the verbose option on. An alternative is to key the "no debugging symbols found" message off of "set print symbol-loading on" for shared libs. I kind of like this better. It's on by default. Folks with tons of shared libs probably want to turn symbol loading messages off anyway.