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Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> In order to ensure the library has debug info built into it, do you
>> just need to build the library with the -g option specified during
>> compilation?  Or is it more involved?
>
> Building it with -g should be sufficient. However, even if the library
> was not built with debug info, we should still have the symbol table
> to work with, right?

Unless it is stripped.  The dynamic symbol table may not be enough.

Andreas.

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