From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: ankit thukral <ankit_plug@yahoo.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: about _dl_debug_state()
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031105161103.ZM6798@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ankit thukral <ankit_plug@yahoo.com> "about _dl_debug_state()" (Nov 5, 3:31am)
On Nov 5, 3:31am, ankit thukral wrote:
> this is regarding the function called
> _dl_debug_state() which is in the library ld-2.x.so.i
> can't figure out why is this function needed and why
> is a (internal) breakpoint put at this function.
> apparently , this function is just a stub.but i can't
> figure out the need for it.
The dynamic loader will call this function when a shared library
has been loaded or unloaded. A debugger may place a breakpoint on
this function to know when it should refresh its list of loaded
shared libraries.
Kevin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-05 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-05 5:29 Remote Debugging problem Kiran Chandrashekaran, Nair (IE10)
2003-11-05 11:31 ` about _dl_debug_state() ankit thukral
2003-11-05 16:11 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
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