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
next prev parent 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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