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Re: Cause of the ?? in backtrace

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Rich Rattanni <rattanni at gmail dot com>, Michael Snyder <Michael dot Snyder at palmsource dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:14:43 +0100
Subject: Re: Cause of the ?? in backtrace
References: <3187bd480703120747h332fbf12gab39d77719c910f9@mail.gmail.com> <1173744387.11051.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3187bd480703122048v4b1482f0n1cffd1f473af5193@mail.gmail.com> <20070313040804.GQ14401@adacore.com>

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> In order to ensure the library has debug info built into it, do you
>> just need to build the library with the -g option specified during
>> compilation?  Or is it more involved?
>
> Building it with -g should be sufficient. However, even if the library
> was not built with debug info, we should still have the symbol table
> to work with, right?

Unless it is stripped.  The dynamic symbol table may not be enough.

Andreas.

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References:
- Cause of the ?? in backtrace
  - From: Rich Rattanni
- Re: Cause of the ?? in backtrace
  - From: Michael Snyder
- Re: Cause of the ?? in backtrace
  - From: Rich Rattanni
- Re: Cause of the ?? in backtrace
  - From: Joel Brobecker

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