From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19414 invoked by alias); 7 May 2009 17:17:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 19385 invoked by uid 22791); 7 May 2009 17:17:00 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com) (65.115.85.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 May 2009 17:16:56 +0000 Received: from mailhost3.vmware.com (mailhost3.vmware.com [10.16.27.45]) by smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8F91F004; Thu, 7 May 2009 10:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.20.94.141] (msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com [10.20.94.141]) by mailhost3.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D0DC9B4D; Thu, 7 May 2009 10:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A031574.6040704@vmware.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 17:17:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20080411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mausoom Sarkar CC: "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Break whenever an application enters a given library References: <6c288c860905070203u799d766bid9fa2ebb04c6e98e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6c288c860905070203u799d766bid9fa2ebb04c6e98e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 Mausoom Sarkar wrote: > Hi, > > I want gdb to break whenever calls are made to functions within a > particular library. How can I set such a library level breakpoint? In general, you can't. Maybe set an access watchpoint on the library's whole text section?