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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 1997 18:20:58 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        darius@senet.com.au
Subject:   Re: Shared Libraries and debugging
Message-ID:  <19971126182058.04145@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199711250748.SAA16393@holly.rd.net>; from Daniel J. O'Connor on Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 06:18:59PM %2B1030
References:  <199711250748.SAA16393@holly.rd.net>

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As Daniel J. O'Connor wrote:

> I was fiddling with some code which links against shared libraries, and 
> noticed that when viewing a core dumb with gdb, it doesn't load the symbols 
> from the shared libraries, so consequently debugging the program is kind of 
> akward.

I usually set a breakpoint at main(), run it till there, and then
voila!, you can also specify breakpoints at shared lib functions...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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