Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:40:35 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, darius@senet.com.au Subject: Re: Shared Libraries and debugging Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971127163806.28870A-100000@darkstar.home> In-Reply-To: <199711272255.OAA18209@austin.polstra.com>
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On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, John Polstra wrote: > Judging by the cause of the problem, I doubt that it ever worked. In > order to examine shared libraries, gdb needs to look at the dynamic > linker's table which records where they were loaded into memory. The > dynamic linker has always recorded this information in a MAP_ANON > region way up high in the address space. But such regions are not > written to the core file when a core dump occurs. So gdb has not been > able to get the information it needs. So memory allocated with mmap() is not dumped in a core file? Is this not possible or just not desirable? Charles Mott
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