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On Friday 14 October 2011 10:23:04 Aleksandar Ristovski wrote: > On 11-10-12 01:35 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > second, i wonder if we can't have this work more intelligently out of the > > box. is it unreasonable to have gdb automatically search /usr/lib/debug/ > > for split debuf files if the .gnu_debuglink section does not exist ? or > > at least do it if the ELF has no sections at all ? it'd be nice if we > > could do `gdb prog` and gdb is smart enough to at least check > > /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/prog.debug. -mike > > Can this be used for what you want: > > (gdb) help set debug-file-directory that is already set to "/usr/lib/debug/" by default. if you look at the logic that loads the split debug files, the issue is that it immediately returns if no debugging information is found in the ELF -- which there isn't if all the sections have been split out. so it doesn't get a chance to scan the debug file directory. check out symfile.c:find_separate_debug_file_by_debuglink(). i hacked it locally so that when get_debug_link_info() returns NULL, the code would fall back to searching for the basename(argv[0]) + ".debug" of the ELF in question. that seemed to do what i want: "just work". -mike
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