From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: "Lucy Zhang" <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: how does GDB find the symbols?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <np8z3ys9pd.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <011f01c23444$1de51c90$9a0a0109@zhangl>
"Lucy Zhang" <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu> writes:
> I'm converting a coredump into the ELF format. At first, the outputs in GDB
> came out blank, i.e.
> #0 0x40091aa5 in ?? ()
>
>
> But after I added some other infomation, now I get the symbols filled in.
> i.e.
>
> #0 0x40091aa5 in sigset (sig=-1073747472, disp=0x20) at
> ../sysdeps/posix/sigset.c:69
>
> Where does GDB find the function names, the arg lists, and other such
> information?
From the executable file's debugging info.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-26 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 8:58 Thread signal information Lucy Zhang
2002-07-24 9:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-24 9:47 ` Dan Kegel
2002-07-24 11:52 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-24 11:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-24 12:11 ` Dan Kegel
2002-07-25 8:57 ` Lucy Zhang
2002-07-25 9:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-25 18:28 ` how does GDB find the symbols? Lucy Zhang
2002-07-26 10:03 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
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