From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
To: Anthony Heading <ajrh@ajrh.net>
Cc: Kris Warkentin <KEWarken@qnx.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: debugging shared libraries
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f2776cb0601060010l18ef2664laa60f4f9b3149ead@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BDC9B8.3010906@ajrh.net>
On 1/5/06, Anthony Heading <ajrh@ajrh.net> wrote:
> The problem I see, as I tried to allude to but maybe didn't
> make clear, is e.g. that tab-completion of the breakpoint symbol
> obviously doesn't work. And although that might not seem
> a major problem, I assumed that made it very difficult for the
> GUI front ends to gdb (kdbg / eclipse / whatever) to be started
> against a shared library. (Which is my real ideal).
One of the problems here is that, technically, we don't know which
shared library the dynamic linker will actually load until the program
starts running, so we can't offer completion on its symbols. We could
try to guess what the dynamic linker was going to do, but that's kind
of a mess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 14:17 Kris Warkentin
2006-01-06 1:37 ` Anthony Heading
2006-01-06 8:10 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2006-01-06 14:56 ` Anthony Heading
2006-01-06 19:06 ` Jim Blandy
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2006-01-05 14:12 Anthony Heading
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