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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 02:27:05 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        eivind@FreeBSD.ORG (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdb sucks - and I need to get around it.  help?
Message-ID:  <199902170227.TAA16880@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990216170310.C60651@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Feb 16, 99 05:03:10 pm

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> Anybody know of any way of getting gdb to step from the start of the
> program?
> 
> I have an executable with absolutely no symbol data (symbol data is
> absolutely non-available) which I *have* to get to step through, if
> necessary by re-implementing gdb.

One really snotty way to do it is to write a small program that
exec's the other program, and follow it through the exec.  I've used
this technique to work on ld.so before.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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