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Re: too many "no debugging symbols found" messages from shared libs
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:06:18 -0800
- Subject: Re: too many "no debugging symbols found" messages from shared libs
- References: <5186.86.86.3.213.1227272244.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <ud4gpjej2.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:57:24 +0100 (CET)
>> From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
>> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, brobecker@adacore.com,
>> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> Sorry I'm a bit late in this discussion, but I do really like the messages
>> about missing symbol info for shared libraries. To me they provide an
>> important hint that my debugging session is likely to run into problems at
>> some point.
>
> You can still have that, just set the verbose option on.
An alternative is to key the "no debugging symbols found" message off
of "set print symbol-loading on" for shared libs. I kind of like this
better. It's on by default. Folks with tons of shared libs probably
want to turn symbol loading messages off anyway.