From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: GDB <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Does gdb support weak/normal symbols?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116154754.GA10336@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060116014904.GA20402@nevyn.them.org>
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:49:04PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 04:48:31PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > foo in weak.c isn't in the symbol table. But gdb sets the breakpoint
> > of foo on it. Shouldn't gdb be clever enough to know to check the
> > other one?
>
> GDB uses the debug information in preference to the ELF symbol table.
> That one says this is a definition of foo.
>
> Eventually "break foo" will breakpoint both of them.
What did you mean by "Eventually"? Were you saying that it was a bug
and would be fixed in the future? Is anyone working on it? I'd like
to help.
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-16 0:48 H. J. Lu
2006-01-16 1:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-16 15:48 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2006-01-16 15:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-16 18:11 ` H. J. Lu
2006-01-16 18:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-16 18:32 ` H. J. Lu
2006-01-16 18:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-16 18:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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