Shared libraries and the solib interface

[Kevin Buettner]

On Oct 2,  1:50pm, Stephen P. Smith wrote:

> Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> >>And a second question is how does a 
> >>generic stub inform the GDB (workstation side) app which shared library 
> >>got loaded and where or is this not necessary?
> >
> >For svr4- and sunos-like shared library support, this information is
> >available by examining the target's memory.
> >
> It is available.  I guess I didn't explain well enough.  

Oh!

> Given that I know where/what is loaded on the target machine which is 
> running gdbserver,  how do I communicate to the workstation running gdb 
> to load the symbol file  and the addresses of the various sections?

That's already handled by the existing (generic) shared library code. 
See solib.c.

Kevin