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[Bug gdb/11704] Cannot load debugging info


------- Additional Comments From tromey at redhat dot com  2010-06-17 17:03 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> > For this one it would be interesting to see what is happening inside gdb
> 
> I don't know how to look inside gdb as I don't have a working debugger. (If I
had dbx I'd just use that)

In this case you could probably use strace to see what system call is failing.
That might help, anyway.
 
> > AFAIK you can't generally use symbol-file with a .o.
> 
> Not sure what symbol-file is for then. Certainly didn't work with the source
.c file.

I think it is there to support the case where the inferior process does
not have debug symbols, but you have an unstripped executable as well.


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