From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: lin q <linq936@hotmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: how to check the symbols inside binaries
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050429175836.GA837@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY10-F306E508DAFC4CF065F61DBE9240@phx.gbl>
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:33:48AM -0600, lin q wrote:
> Hi,
> I am debugging a program, the source files scatter around many different
> places. When I start gdb and load the executable, I am prompted
> "<path1>/gui_main.c:there is no such file or directory". The "path1" is not
> right, there is no such directory at all.
>
> My question is how come gdb tries to load gui_main.c from path1? What is
> the logic under the hood?
>
> The problem is even worse, gui_main.c is not my file, it must be from one
> of libraries I link with. But I have no idea where it is.
That is the directory which the file was compiled in, by whoever built
it.
> I run ldd against the program and I see a lot of shared libraries, so my
> question is how I can know which library is this "gui_main" from? Or maybe
> it is in the executable itself? How can I know that?
Presumably it is in a library you link with. Whichever one provides
"main".
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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2005-04-29 17:57 lin q
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