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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Lucy Zhang <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: missing text segment in Elf dump
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020815193009.GA8816@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003301c24489$e8206280$9a0a0109@zhangl>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:30:56AM -0700, Lucy Zhang wrote:
> Can you elaborate on how GDB gets it from the application? and by
> application do you mean the executable file?

Yes.  They are both ELF binaries with mapped sections.  GDB can read
data directly from the application; and the kernel generally will not
dump it.

> Also, when I try to look at the source code using "list", does this have
> anything to do with the text segment? I ask because it would work for some
> source files and not for others. i.e.
> (gdb) list condvar.c:88
> 83      condvar.c: No such file or directory.
>           in condvar.c

No, this has nothing to do with segments, only with debug information.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


      reply	other threads:[~2002-08-15 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-15 11:06 Lucy Zhang
2002-08-15 11:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-15 11:27   ` Lucy Zhang
2002-08-15 12:29     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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