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From: Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111@gmail.com>
To: gdb@gnu.org
Subject: How to set a breakpoint on imported Win32 function?
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHEcG95zJ5Xy=u8JKseYEMYpybMkpmeNym_g6XYAiUJ4ew+M0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I have a program without any debug info, which has an import table
with some functions imported by name. E.g. kernel32!ExitProcess is
imported, and the debugger should know its name and address.

But whenever I run GDB (from mingw-w64) with my test exe and try to
set breakpoint on ExitProcess, GDB complains that no symbol table is
loaded and asks if I want it set on future library load. After I agree
and let the debuggee run, the debuggee exits without any trap
(although it does exit via this exact function).

OTOH, on Linux I can set a breakpoint on e.g. exit, which gets located
in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 for which I don't have any debug
symbols, and the breakpoint successfully traps.

So, how can I set a breakpoint on an imported function in Windows? Or
is the handling of PE import table to fill GDB's symbol table not
implemented?

Thanks,
Ruslan


             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15 22:42 Ruslan Kabatsayev [this message]
2020-01-16 14:54 ` Luis Machado
2020-01-16 17:17   ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2020-01-16 18:14     ` Luis Machado
2020-01-16 18:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 20:01         ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2020-01-17  7:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-17  8:41             ` Ruslan Kabatsayev

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