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gdb doesn't work very well with dynamic linked binaries
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Subject: gdb doesn't work very well with dynamic linked binaries
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 08:49:34 -0700
- Cc: GDB <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20000901192328.A28312@valinux.com> <200009041047.LAA10659@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:47:13AM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > It is too bad that not many gcc developers using --enable-shared to
> > configure gcc under ia32. See
>
> Well, on Linux, gdb fails to restart a cc1 / cc1plus executable that is
> statically linked, which makes debugging very tedious.
> So I always patch my Makefile to use static linking.
That is a very annoying bug in gdb 5.0. When I set a breakpoint in
the shared library, I have to disable them before restart. Also it is
very hard to debug ld-linux.so.2:
# gdb ld-linux.so.2
H.J.