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From: Simo Melenius <smelenius@nvidia.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Program image not relocated if it's a solib already loaded by    dlopen()
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004191840050.18242@geist> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100419142148.GA26752@caradoc.them.org>

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> First of all, I assume this is an arm-linux-gnueabi GDB.  If it were
> an ARM EABI gdb, you wouldn't get shared library support at all.  But
> that may be your problem.

Sorry for the confusion, gnueabi it is. And I have shared libraries, and I 
generally can debug them with gdb.

> Secondly, don't do this.  If you want to debug libfoo.so, just make
> sure GDB has search paths set up, and start GDB on the executable.
> Otherwise, it can not find the load map.  No shared library support is
> going to work properly in this case.

Thank you, this is exactly the kind of clarification I was looking for. 
Just wasn't sure of what gdb is supposed to support in the end.


kind regards,
Simo

-- 
  Simo Melenius, NVIDIA Corporation, smelenius@nvidia.com, http://eu.nvidia.com


      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-19 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16 19:20 Simo Melenius
2010-04-19 14:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-04-19 15:42   ` Simo Melenius [this message]

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