reading symbols

reading symbols

[Bob Rossi]

Hi,

I had a quick question. I'm running GNAT GDB 3.15p on windows. I have 2
programs that link to the same dll. GDB is able to debug the dll with
program A, but with program B, when I run GDB, it crashes loading the
symbols for program B with this error,
   BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 749 in
   styp_to_sec_flags

I don't want to debug program B, since it is C++, I just want to debug
the DLL which is written in ADA. Is there any way I can tell GDB to not
worry about reading in symbols for anything besides the DLL, so that I
can debug again?

Here's what a session looks like,

gdb dellell.dll
b file.c:1
exec-file programB
r arguments

BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 749 in
styp_to_sec_flags


Thanks,
Bob Rossi

Re: reading symbols

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:59:35PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a quick question. I'm running GNAT GDB 3.15p on windows. I have 2
> programs that link to the same dll. GDB is able to debug the dll with
> program A, but with program B, when I run GDB, it crashes loading the
> symbols for program B with this error,
>    BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 749 in
>    styp_to_sec_flags
> 
> I don't want to debug program B, since it is C++, I just want to debug
> the DLL which is written in ADA. Is there any way I can tell GDB to not
> worry about reading in symbols for anything besides the DLL, so that I
> can debug again?

No, you can't load a DLL without loading the executable.

> Here's what a session looks like,
> 
> gdb dellell.dll
> b file.c:1
> exec-file programB
> r arguments
> 
> BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 749 in
> styp_to_sec_flags

If you submit a binutils bug report, maybe it can be fixed...

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