From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
To: Charles Wilkins <chas@pcscs.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gdb warning
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B1837E0.8708E54B@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005601c0e705$ec46f5a0$2b6e60cf@cg470161b>
Charles Wilkins wrote:
>
> I have seen posts about this is the web and in a couple newgroups, but I
> have seen no clear solutions or definition as to what this message means.
>
> When i run gdb, I get warning: unable to find dynamic linker
> breakpoint function.
> GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers and track
> explicitly loaded dynamic code.
>
> I have installed the latest gdb and gcc.
>
> Minimally, to duplicate this error, I compile with:
> g++ -g test.cpp
>
> Then to debug, I run:
> gdb a.out
>
> In the debugger when I try to run, is when I get the error.
>
> Anybody care to point out what the cause of this is ?
>
> Thanks in advance for a prompt reply.
In general, the cause is that GDB was not able to find and/or
load symbols from the dynamic linker. I can't tell you more
specifically than that. Perhaps the dynamic linker is not
in the usual location? Perhaps it has been stripped? Perhaps
its filename is not as expected?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-01 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-27 16:37 Charles Wilkins
2001-05-29 10:27 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-05-29 10:34 ` Charles Wilkins
2001-06-01 17:49 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2001-05-29 9:59 Charles Wilkins
2001-05-29 11:05 David Taylor
2001-05-29 11:12 ` Charles Wilkins
2001-05-29 11:43 Charles Wilkins
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