gdb and shared libraries

[wim delvaux]

Hi all,

I am running the 5.3.90-2003_06_29-cvs-debian version of gdb and STILL i have 
problems with breakpoints in shared libraries...

The problem is that you can set a breakpoint in a library but if you restart 
the program all breakpoints in that library are lost (i.e. gdb knows about 
them but seems to have disabled them).

Now I know that you are going to say that the library gets unloaded and hence 
the breakpoint cannot be set ... but it seems that gdb tries to set them 
because I get messages that It cannot set a shlib breakpoint.

Now I wonder if it is really that difficult to remember over gdb restarts that 
breakpoints were set for a certain library and once that library get reloaded 
set the breakpoints again.

1. without the messages that it cannot set them
2. without appearing to forget that the breakpoints were active ..

I say STILL because the problem has existed in all 5-versions I know of but 
did not exist in the last 4-version.

W