Re: How to load only selected libraries?

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

For historical reasons the Apple shared library handling code doesn't  
share the mechanisms that Linux/etc. use.  So the majority of the code  
would have to be ported over from the macosx/*dyld* code, where it  
lives in our gdb, to the solib code in FSF gdb.  I don't have any  
experience with the Linux solib code in gdb, so I'm not likely to  
tackle this.

I was offering this more as an interesting design point.

Jim


On Jan 26, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Srinath Avadhanula wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 1:55 PM, Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com> wrote:
>> We did this at Apple a while back.  We have a command "set
>> sharedlibrary load-rules" that works like:
>>
> [snip interesting explanation of this feature]
>
> This sounds incredibly useful. Any idea if this will be incorporated
> back into gdb itself?
>
> Thanks,
> Srinath