Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:27:15 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@wide.ad.jp>, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961011112324.10204w-100000@minnow.render.com> In-Reply-To: <199610101748.KAA05145@austin.polstra.com>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, John Polstra wrote: > [snip] > > * If the program died in the dynamic linker, then I will need a > sorted namelist from your installed version of the dynamic linker. Of > course, your installed version is stripped, so you can't get a namelist > from it. :-( But hopefully, the unstripped version still exists on your > system, in "/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/rtld/ld.so". Run "nm -an" > on that file, and send me the output. Note: it is possible to use gdb on the dynamic linker. I have done this and it is safe. Just go to /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/rtld and type 'make DEBUG_FLAGS=-g clean all install'. I also used to use a debug crt0.o which allowed me to single step into ld.so. The only thing I wasn't able to debug was the startup sequence; you can only debug calls to dlopen etc. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426
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