Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:01:44 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf rtld.c Message-ID: <199809161901.MAA02069@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:05:06 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809160903170.392-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> > I personally would prefer to leave the dynamic linker's entry out > > of the GDB search list altogether. But Doug argues that it is > > handy there for such things as setting breakpoints on dlopen(). > > So it stays for now, at least. ... > I have been able to debug the whole rtld startup from _rtld() onwards, > including relocatiing rtld itself and loading the main program's > libraries. Having gdb able to see rtld's symbols is invaluable when > working on this code. Yes, but to debug the rtld's code in this way, you have to build a special (-g and unstripped) version of it anyway. I'd prefer to add an ifdef RTLD_GDB, and only make the rtld's symbols visible if it is defined. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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