From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10567 invoked by alias); 15 May 2004 13:16:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10548 invoked from network); 15 May 2004 13:16:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (195.135.220.2) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 15 May 2004 13:16:40 -0000 Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0493E5B5DD5; Sat, 15 May 2004 15:16:40 +0200 (CEST) To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: manjo@austin.ibm.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: List command question References: <2914-Sat15May2004113549+0300-eliz@gnu.org> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: Let me do my TRIBUTE to FISHNET STOCKINGS... Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 13:16:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <2914-Sat15May2004113549+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 15 May 2004 11:35:50 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: Andreas Schwab >> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:27:18 +0200 >> >> You can't expect meaningful results without debugging information as >> nothing else is providing information about source files. > > I tried this with GDB 6.1 and the DJGPP toolchain, and GDB said "(no > debugging symbols found)", which is reasonable, IMHO. > > Why didn't it do so in Manoj's case? Because there is _some_ debugging info, presumably from libc. And once gdb has found any debugging info at all it will not say "(no debugging symbols found)" any more, even if more objects without debugging info are crossed. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."