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Re: too many "no debugging symbols found" messages from shared libs


>  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.

I like that idea.




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