Re: Stripped files

Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-10T02:52:55Z

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:33:10PM -0700, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote:
> Am I breaking any assumptions in the GDB code if the code running on a
> remote target is stripped and the code that GDB loads on the host has
> the symbolic information? In other words is GDB likely to get confused
> by this situation?

No, this is normal.

> If the situation in the above paragraph isn't a problem, would it be a
> good idea for GDB to sniff for the file with the symbolic information
> via an default extension. For example the file that would be on the
> remote target would be something like libfoo.so and the file that that
> gdb would look for first on the host system would be
> libfoo.so-withsymbols and then fi that didn't exist it would look for
> libfoo.so.
>
> What do you think of that?

The solution we've used for this before is .gnu_debuglink (see the GDB
and binutils manuals for more about that). You can also use
sysroot / solib-search-path if the debug symbol file has the same name as the
target file.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery