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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Shared libraries and the solib interface
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031002231840.ZM21724@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net> "Re: Shared libraries and the solib interface" (Oct  2,  1:50pm)

On Oct 2,  1:50pm, Stephen P. Smith wrote:

> Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> >>And a second question is how does a 
> >>generic stub inform the GDB (workstation side) app which shared library 
> >>got loaded and where or is this not necessary?
> >
> >For svr4- and sunos-like shared library support, this information is
> >available by examining the target's memory.
> >
> It is available.  I guess I didn't explain well enough.  

Oh!

> Given that I know where/what is loaded on the target machine which is 
> running gdbserver,  how do I communicate to the workstation running gdb 
> to load the symbol file  and the addresses of the various sections?

That's already handled by the existing (generic) shared library code. 
See solib.c.

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-02  4:08 Stephen & Linda Smith
2003-10-02  5:43 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-02  6:26   ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2003-10-02 19:15     ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-02 20:50       ` Stephen P. Smith
2003-10-02 23:18         ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2003-10-08 15:44 ` Andrew Cagney
     [not found] <1065665939.20950.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2003-10-09 14:01 ` John S. Yates, Jr.

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