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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:57:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Can GDB stub report every module loading event so that the host  	can load every module symbol automatically?
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>, "?$BPd?pzx" <niruiyu@gmail.com>,  	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:47, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:36, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wro=
te:
>>> There is no such message because the stub doesn't know
>>> anything about modules. =A0There is no particular "event"
>>> when execution first enters a module.
>>
>> Could these modules be seen as "shared libraries"? The remote protocol
>> supports that...
>>
>
> I think we have 2 trouble about it:
> 1. =A0Some stub for example a qemu, let itself set the breakpoint to
> stop the event and get the lib name and address is not easy.
> 2. =A0For GDB part, let it know where is the solib in sometime is not
> easy. =A0For example, cross compile kernel will be put to anywhere and
> each module will be put a different dir.
>
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2010-02/msg00022.html

This thread is talk about LKM in before.

Regards,
Hui