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Re: Cross solib support; viable at all?


Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> 
> Hi Orjan,
> 
> > Reading the lengthy comment preceding enable_break in solib-svr4.c, I
> > understand that gdb must be able to put a breakpoint in the linker to
> > intercept the loading and unloading of shared libraries.  This obviously
> > becomes a problem when the linker isn't run native.
> 
> This comment is about the _dynamic_ linker, which is a piece of code in
> the target which loads shared libraries.  The dynamic linker is always
> part of the target code.

Yes, I know it's about the dynamic linker (ld.so.1), though I see from
my post now it's not clear I knew.

-- 
Orjan Friberg
Axis Communications AB


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