gdb.base/pending.exp failures

[Jeff Johnston]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>Just a note of probable-cause: Jeff, on which platforms did you test
>this testcase?  I bet it wasn't i386-linux.
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You're right.  I tested ia64, not i386.

>On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:01:21PM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
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>>(gdb) break pendfunc1
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>>Breakpoint 1 at 0x804839c
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>>(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/pending.exp: set pending breakpoint
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>This function is in a shared library that hasn't been loaded yet. 
>However, on i386-linux (and many other platforms), the call will go
>through a PLT entry, and the entry in the application's symbol table
>will appear as an SHN_UNDEF symbol with a non-zero address pointing at
>the PLT entry.  GDB will re-resolve the breakpoint after shared
>libraries have been loaded.  This is already-existing functionality.
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>If you don't want to use dlopen in the test, try setting breakpoints on
>a function not called directly from the executable (i.e. called from
>within the library).
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Thanks for the explanation.