Ensure correct symbol-file when attaching to a (remote) process

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Fri Dec 21 16:11:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:05:37 +0100, Raphael Zulliger wrote:
> Is there really no such mechanism in GDB?

There is no such reliable mechanism in general.

One could verify build-id in the target, probably that the build-id note is at
the same VMA as present in the local symbol file.

But then also many binaries/compilers do not provide build-id by default (ld
option --build-id).


Jan



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