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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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