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To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: gdb and dynamic symbol information 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jul 1996 13:22:32 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 21:20:46 -0700
From: Mike Haertel <haertel@incognito.intel.com>
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>What I would like to know is what sort of work would be required to
>make our gdb do this for dynamically linked FreeBSD a.out executables.
>I tried looking through the gdb sources but I couldn't actually find
>the part that reads the SunOS dynamic symbol info. (While I dearly
>love gdb, I must confess that its sources make my brain itch.) Is
>our shared library implementation similar enough to SunOS's that we
>could reuse some of the same code? If so, does anyone know how to
>turn the feature on when building for an i386-freebsd target? Am
>I dreaming?

The part of gdb that reads the dynamic symbols is in the "BFD" library.
Take a look at bfd/sunos.c in a standard gdb distribution.   The gdb
in FreeBSD's /usr/src probably doesn't have this file, although I haven't
checked...