From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 11 03:31:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA06381 for current-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 03:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA06181 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 03:28:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA23986; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:27:15 +0100 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:27:15 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson Reply-To: Doug Rabson To: John Polstra cc: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= , current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199610101748.KAA05145@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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