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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:30:32 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdb sucks - and I need to get around it.  help?
Message-ID:  <19990217133032.A515@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902170227.TAA16880@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 02:27:05AM %2B0000
References:  <19990216170310.C60651@bitbox.follo.net> <199902170227.TAA16880@usr08.primenet.com>

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On Wednesday, 17 February 1999 at  2:27:05 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> 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?

Greg
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