extract debuginfo for Xorg backtraces

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Feb 22 15:36:00 GMT 2011


Hi Elmar,

> It works well for everything in /usr/bin/Xorg. However as the
> backtrace meets a shared library (libc.so, radeon_drv.so,
> evdev_drv.so) the symtab does not contain any section that would
> include the given addresses/+offsets.

How about the dynamic symbol table ?

I suggest that you have a look at the GDB code base to see how symbols 
in shared libraries are handled there.

Cheers
   Nick



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