Re: gdb and Dll

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:57:16PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>>There is one long-standing "gotcha" in debugging dlls however.  Currently
>>you can only set breakpoints on line numbers not on symbol names if the
>>dll is not loaded.  That is you can't do:
>>
>>  dll-symbols foo.dll
>>  bp foo
>>
>>You have to, instead do:
>>
>>  dll-symbols foo.dll
>>  list foo
>>  bp <first line of foo>
>
>Weird.  Create a bug report.

There already is one, I believe, complete with patch, which I'm testing
now.  I'd give you a URL but my browser is sick right now.  I just did a
search for a topic with dll in it in gnats and found it.  This was after
Joel B.  suggested that a number of PRs had been filed for dll handling.

FWIW, I mentioned this behavior to a couple of gdb engineers two or
three years ago and I was almost given to believe that it was expected
behavior.

cgf