Re: Stopped due to shared library event

[Jim Blandy <jimb at codesourcery dot com>]

Roman.Rycerz at us.contiautomotive.com writes:
> I am debugging a embedded program and after i do a stepi   i get a "stopped
> due to shared library event"
>
> I am not sure what this means.... the embedded code does not use shared
> libraries...  is this a problem with my target
> or with gdb ???

What version of GDB are you using?  How did you configure and build it?

> (gdb) stepi
> Sending packet: $Z0,3fffa310,4#70...Ack
> Packet received:
> Packet Z0 (software-breakpoint) is NOT supported
> Sending packet: $m3fffa310,4#27...Ack
> Packet received: 3c801000
> Sending packet: $X3fffa310,4:}]\202\020\b#c0...Ack
> Packet received: OK
> Sending packet: $Hc0#db...Ack
> Packet received: OK
> Sending packet: $s#73...Ack
> Packet received: T0540:3fffa310;01:3fff2504;
> Sending packet: $X3fffa310,4:<\200\020\000#18...Ack
> Packet received: OK
> Stopped due to shared library event
> Current language:  auto; currently asm

This looks to me as if GDB believes there is a dynamic linker in your
program with its event-reporting function at 0x3fffa310.  If you're
using a properly configured GDB, I'm not sure why it would think that.