From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17485 invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2004 21:44:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17438 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2004 21:44:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Dec 2004 21:44:13 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cjlby-0001LR-Tu; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:44:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:44:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Adam Richard Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function Message-ID: <20041229214406.GA5135@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Richard , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <1104355984.41d322909c42d@webmail.unb.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1104355984.41d322909c42d@webmail.unb.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00126.txt.bz2 On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:33:04PM -0400, Adam Richard wrote: > I wonder if someone knows what the following warning means? It appears whenever I use > the "run" command to start my program: > > (gdb) run > Starting program: /home/adam/programming/programs/meals/meals > warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. > GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers > and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. > > I found a few posts related to it but few people seem to know what the warning message > itself means. It means exactly what it says - GDB could not set the breakpoint that it uses for tracking things like dlopen(). I can't guess at causes, since you didn't tell us what your platform is. -- Daniel Jacobowitz