Re: gdb and dlopen

Kevin Buettner
2001-11-19T19:38:41Z

On Nov 19, 2:16pm, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > After I proposed the above idea, Peter Schauer emailed me privately
> > and noted that my idea would "break setting breakpoints in global
> > object constructor code in shared libraries." He goes on to say
> > that the "reenable breakpoint logic after every shlib load currently
> > takes care of this."
> >
> > So, it looks like you've also noticed one of the concerns that Peter
> > had regarding my idea.
>
> Yes. I don't know what we can really do about this - besides
> decreasing the total memory traffic for an update, which I think would
> be wise. Among other possibilities, do you have any comment on my
> suggestion for setting inferior memory to be cached by default if not
> otherwise specified? Currently we default to uncached, which is safer,
> but I can't think of many examples where it would be a problem to
> cache.

Are you sure caching will help? The cache has to be invalidated every
time GDB stops, right?

If current_sos() is refetching some bit of memory more than once per
invocation, then perhaps this problem should be solved by some other
means?

Kevin