From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Antony KING <antony.king@st.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Strange effect in GDB 6.8 when setting breakpoint on symbol with both strong and weak definitions
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081014133113.GA11370@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F49D68.2030701@st.com>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:23:52PM +0100, Antony KING wrote:
> As you can see the location of the breakpoint at f() has been shifted
> from its definition in b.c (which is what I expected) before the program
> is run, to its definition in a.c after the program stopped in main()
> (which is not what I would expect). This shift of location seems wrong
> to me and quite unexpected. Is this a bug ?
I don't know why this happens.
> Another problem is that although there are 2 definitions of f() in the
> program, only 1 breakpoint is being set. My understanding is that GDB
> should set multiple breakpoints on f(). Is this correct (or is this only
> a feature that is enabled when debugging C++ applications) ?
It would be nice if this worked, but it doesn't; so far it's only
based on line number. So it works for inlined or templated code.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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2008-10-14 13:24 Antony KING
2008-10-14 13:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-10-14 20:31 ` Antony KING
2008-10-15 1:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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