"failed to find valid object file", but which object file? (using static libraries)

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:47:12AM +0200, Bram Kuijper wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as a newbie, I am debugging a program which uses a number of self-made static 
> libraries. When running (gdb) start, the first message I get is:
> 
> Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
> 0x08048d15 in main ()
> 
> Is there any way to find _which_ object file has failed to be read in?

One from memory, not from disk.  Usually this will be linux-gate.so.1
or something like that; a virtual DSO provided by the kernel.

I'm not sure why it would fail.  What platform and kernel version?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery