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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:18:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>
        "Re: Shared libraries and the solib interface" (Oct  2,  1:50pm)
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To: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Shared libraries and the solib interface
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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