Does gdb support weak/normal symbols?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Jan 16 01:49:00 GMT 2006


On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 04:48:31PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> foo in weak.c isn't in the symbol table. But gdb sets the breakpoint
> of foo on it. Shouldn't gdb be clever enough to know to check the
> other one?

GDB uses the debug information in preference to the ELF symbol table. 
That one says this is a definition of foo.

Eventually "break foo" will breakpoint both of them.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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