On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:01:21PM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
(gdb) break pendfunc1
Breakpoint 1 at 0x804839c
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/pending.exp: set pending breakpoint
This function is in a shared library that hasn't been loaded yet.
However, on i386-linux (and many other platforms), the call will go
through a PLT entry, and the entry in the application's symbol table
will appear as an SHN_UNDEF symbol with a non-zero address pointing at
the PLT entry. GDB will re-resolve the breakpoint after shared
libraries have been loaded. This is already-existing functionality.
If you don't want to use dlopen in the test, try setting breakpoints on
a function not called directly from the executable (i.e. called from
within the library).