Re: break on C++ global objects ctors

[<Paul_Koning at Dell dot com>]

This certainly should be easily doable, just in gdb.  FWIW, if you start a program with gdbserver and then connect to it from gdb (“target remote” to gdbserver), the program is stopped at the first instruction, way before “main”.  At that point you should be able to set a breakpoint in a constructor and tell it “continue”.

If such a thing were desirable for gdb, the same logic could be used, I would assume.

	paul

On Mar 31, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:

> PING for a maintainer please?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>   Daniel.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Daniel Gutson
> <daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>    AFAIK, there is no command to break and debug the construction of
>> global objects in C++.
>> 
>> I'm looking for an equivalent command to "start" but instead of temp
>> breaking at the
>> beginning of main(), breaks at the beginning of every global ctor.
>> 
>> The way I'm currently doing this in GNU Linux/x86_64 is:
>>  br __static_initialization_and_destruction_0
>> which is a workaround, with the nice side effect that when asking info br, gdb
>> shows all the source locations of the global object instances.
>> 
>> I'm not sure whether this could supported by a native gdb feature or by a python
>> extension.
>> If there is consensus about the former, I might create some patch.
>> However, I suspect that this might require some support from collect2 too,
>> or some libc internals knowledge by gdb.
>> 
>>    Daniel.
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