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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Cc: dave.antliff@paradise.net.nz
Subject: Re: remote debugging symbol problem
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 04:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c55c26$Blat.v2.4$f6a75040@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050519010133.GB27885@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Wed, 18 May 2005 21:01:33 -0400)

> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:01:33 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > (gdb) target remote 10.16.10.237:2345
> > Remote debugging using 10.16.10.237:2345
> > 0x0fe896a0 in ?? ()
> > warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
> > GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
> > and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
> > 
> > My understanding is that the warning is simply because the standard 
> > libraries aren't compiled with GDB support. This used to happen even when 
> > it worked so I'm not concerned about it (should I be?).
> 
> You should be.  This means that GDB has not found your target
> libraries.

If this is the cause, shouldn't GDB tell that explicitly?  I mean,
it's quite hard, given ``unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint
function'' to figure out that the reason is a failed search for the
libraries, except perhaps for wizards such as Daniel ;-)

Should we teach GDB be more explicit here?


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-19  0:26 David Antliff
2005-05-19  1:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-19  3:53   ` David Antliff
2005-05-19  4:00   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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