Re: Debugger Info

"Sander Vesik" <sander@haldjas.folklore.ee>
31 Jul 2002 01:19:26 -0400

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From: "Sander Vesik" <sander@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 31 Jul 2002 01:19:26 -0400
Organization: ERA/EKI FO
References: 02-07-085 02-07-093
Keywords: debug
Posted-Date: 31 Jul 2002 01:19:25 EDT

Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@earthlink.net> wrote:


[snip]


> Here are the features that gdb lacks, or misfeatures (it may
> well be that the feature is actually present, but I do not know
> about it -- feel free to enlighten me ;-):
> - unable to set break points in DSO until that DSO has been
> loaded (makes debugging static constructors rather tricky)


I think this is a (mis)feature of the dynamic linker (ld.so) rather
than the debugger. To do this you would need direct support for it
in the dynamic linker (at the very least) or being able to use a
different, debug-enbled dynamic linker. At least on ELF platforms.


[snip]


--
Sander

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