From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Jacques-Olivier Goussard" <jgoussard@nuance.com>
To: <gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: Helping GDB to find symbols
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <NEBBKPBKLKFJPDFPMBDICEPPCBAA.jgoussard@nuance.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00224.html

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jacques-Olivier Goussard wrote:
> 
> > I hope that the proper list to send this...
> > I have the following pb: I shipp products with no debug information,
> > so when a customer has a core dump, I need to fall back on assembly
> > output to try to tackle the pb. 
> > As I have access to the source code and the debug-compiled product,
> > I was wondering if there was a mean to *help* GDB and provide it with
> > some of the debug info.
> 
> Doesn't it work to say "gdb yourprog core", where `yourprog' is the 
> unstripped binary and `core' is the core file you get from your 
> customers?
No. I guess it gets mixed up in the addresses and offsets. The stacktrace
for example is quite different when I switched to the non-debug to
debug binaries (exec and dynamic libraries).

	Jacques-Olivier