On Friday 14 October 2011 10:23:04 Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
On 11-10-12 01:35 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
second, i wonder if we can't have this work more intelligently out of the
box. is it unreasonable to have gdb automatically search /usr/lib/debug/
for split debuf files if the .gnu_debuglink section does not exist ? or
at least do it if the ELF has no sections at all ? it'd be nice if we
could do `gdb prog` and gdb is smart enough to at least check
/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/prog.debug. -mike
Can this be used for what you want:
(gdb) help set debug-file-directory
that is already set to "/usr/lib/debug/" by default. if you look at the logic
that loads the split debug files, the issue is that it immediately returns if
no debugging information is found in the ELF -- which there isn't if all the
sections have been split out. so it doesn't get a chance to scan the debug
file directory.
check out symfile.c:find_separate_debug_file_by_debuglink(). i hacked it locally
so that when get_debug_link_info() returns NULL, the code would fall back to
searching for the basename(argv[0]) + ".debug" of the ELF in question. that
seemed to do what i want: "just work".
-mike