Loading shared libraries

[Kevin Buettner]

On Apr 10, 10:45am, Stephen Smith wrote:

> I have a shared library liblib1.so that I want to load at address 0x4020000.
> 
> If I call add_symbol_file_command( "liblib1.so 0x4020000", 0 ), the
> program starts running and gdb can't take control of it - I haven't
> figured out why yet.

I don't have much experience with this function, but it seems to me
that you ought to be using a different mechanism.

> How would you suggest loading the library?  BTW, I don't want to do
> it at the console but rather in the program.

Just to be clear, we're talking about loading the symbols associated
with a shared library, right?

If so, I would expect that solib.c would handle this for you assuming
that you have the rest of the solib backend working correctly.  (See
symbol_add_stub().)

Kevin