Date: 18 Feb 1999 02:01:24 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb sucks - and I need to get around it. help? Message-ID: <864sok9m3v.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:30:32 %2B1030" References: <19990216170310.C60651@bitbox.follo.net> <199902170227.TAA16880@usr08.primenet.com> <19990217133032.A515@lemis.com>
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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. > Does this work on ELF executables? I used this technique (using ld.so) to debug Emacs when I brought it to FreeBSD-ELF. This was before ELF became stabilized, but it used to work. Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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