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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
		Wiljan Derks <Wiljan.Derks@zonnet.nl>,
	gdb@sourceware.org, 	Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to tell gdb about dlls using remote protocol
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070202114312.GA15239@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C2D80E.2050403@adacore.com>

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:19:58AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> True, but it is relatively unlikely to be interesting to debug through
> Microsoft DLL's, much more likely and useful to debug through user
> written DLL's, and people can learn that if they want to debug such
> DLL's they should not suppress the frame pointer.

Sorry, I have to disagree from my own experience.  Pretty much any time
you stop a running program it's in those DLLs.  And this is doubly true
for any threaded program - there's always a couple of threads that I
have no idea what the heck they're doing.

> I agree it would be nice to take advantage of the MS symbol info if
> this is possible (technically and legally), but as you say it is a
> big project, and we should not let best be the enemy of better.

I'm hoping Mark will respond to the patch.  We stopped doing it
deliberately in the past; I don't know if we want to revisit or not.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-02 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 21:08 Wiljan Derks
2007-01-31 22:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-01 17:52   ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-01 22:54     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-01 23:02       ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-01 23:59         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-02  6:20           ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-02 11:43             ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-02-02 16:51               ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-02 16:56                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-02 17:34                   ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-05 20:34                     ` Wiljan Derks
2007-02-05 21:21                       ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-07 21:47                     ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-07 22:14     ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-07 22:17       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-08 21:14         ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-08 23:00           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14  8:51             ` Joel Brobecker

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