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Re: gdb and Dll
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:11:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:57:16PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>
>>>There is one long-standing "gotcha" in debugging dlls however. Currently
>>>you can only set breakpoints on line numbers not on symbol names if the
>>>dll is not loaded. That is you can't do:
>>>
>>> dll-symbols foo.dll
>>> bp foo
>>>
>>>You have to, instead do:
>>>
>>> dll-symbols foo.dll
>>> list foo
>>> bp <first line of foo>
>>
>>Weird. Create a bug report.
>
>There already is one, I believe, complete with patch, which I'm testing
>now. I'd give you a URL but my browser is sick right now. I just did a
>search for a topic with dll in it in gnats and found it. This was after
>Joel B. suggested that a number of PRs had been filed for dll handling.
The GNATS id is 780 and the patch enclosed therein seems to work ok.
cgf