Stripped files

Stephen & Linda Smith
2007-01-10T01:26:34Z

We've had a couple of discussions about stripped files here lately and
so I want to know a couple of things from GDB's point of view.

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?

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?