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Subject: [ARM] dlopen and remote debugging
From: "karthikeyan.s" <informkarthik@gmail.com>
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Hi,
We recently encountered an issue with gdb wherein it does not get the
symbols from a shared library when loaded with dlopen. The following
steps does not give us the shared library's symbols. The binary is
Xorg.

1)
<target> gdbserver :10000 /usr/bin/X -ac
<host gdb> set sysroot <targetfs_path>
<host gdb> target remote 10.0.0.3:10000
<host gdb> continue
<host> cntrl-C
We do not get the library's symbols here. But with cat
/proc/{x_pid}/maps we can see the library is loaded in memory.

2) But with the following steps, the libraries get loaded
<target>  /usr/bin/X -ac &
<target> gdbserver :10000 --attach <X_pid>
<host gdb> set sysroot <targetfs_path>
<host gdb> target remote 10.0.0.3:10000

We can see the library's symbols and hit breakpoint, debug etc. etc.

Architecture - ARM cortex-a9
toolchain - codesourcery arm-none-linux-gnueabi
gdb version - 7.1.50 (almost the latest!)
The library built with -g2 -ggdb and  is not stripped.

Any reason for the first method to not load the symbols? What part of
gdb code should I dig into for this?

Regards,
Karthik