Re: Does gdb support weak/normal symbols?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:47:54AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 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.

Please read the archives for the last few days.  This is covered by the
same general problem description as "break FILE:LINE" - you have asked
for an ambiguous breakpoint, and instead of properly placing multiple
breakpoints or prompting GDB has picked one at random.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery