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Re: Debugging a Vlc dll with GDB.
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Cc: personel personel <lepascal01 at yahoo dot com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:28:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: Debugging a Vlc dll with GDB.
- References: <20071206182343.GA16137@caradoc.them.org> <433908.24398.qm@web57701.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20071206202850.GA27429@caradoc.them.org> <47586224.CE80C330@dessent.net>
[RFC patch attached -- cc'ed to gdb-patches@]
Brian Dessent wrote:
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
(gdb) break libvlc_new
No symbol table is loaded. use the file command
Try "set pending on"? Or you may need a newer version of GDB.
I don't think pending being off is the problem, but you do need a more
recent gdb than what ships with Cygwin. With recent CVS gdb I have had
success with something like:
gdb VLCTest.exe
add-shared-symbol-files libvlc.dll
b libvlc_new
run
I have always found debugging stripped binaries on Win32 with gdb to be
somewhat unpleasant. After the first time that the program has run and
terminates, all the pending breakpoint stuff usually seems to work fine,
it's just that initially when nothing has loaded yet it does not. So
that's another workaround, just run the inferior to completion without
any breakpoints and then start debugging the second run.
My opinion is that the pending support should kick in on this case, like
in the attached patch, like so:
> gdb/gdb.exe gdb-stripped.exe
GNU gdb 6.7.50.20071206-cvs
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) b LoadLibraryW
Function not found in loaded symbols: LoadLibraryW
Make breakpoint pending on future symbol file addition? (y or [n]) y
Breakpoint 1 (LoadLibraryW) pending.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb-stripped.exe
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
Breakpoint 1, 0x7c80ae4b in LoadLibraryW () from
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
(gdb)
(Those unconditional "(no debugging symbols found)" in
symbol_file_add_with_addrs_or_offsets seem silly to me.
An idea would be:
if (mainline || from_tty || info_verbose)
printf_filtered (_("(no debugging symbols found)"));
?
)
And also:
>gdb/gdb gdb-stripped.exe
GNU gdb 6.7.50.20071206-cvs
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) b main
Function not found in loaded symbols: main
Make breakpoint pending on future symbol file addition? (y or [n]) y
Breakpoint 1 (main) pending.
(gdb) info b
Num Type Disp Enb Address What
1 breakpoint keep y(p) <PENDING> main
(gdb) file gdb/gdb.exe
Reading symbols from /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/gdb.exe...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/gdb.exe
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xe336e0) at
../../gdb-server_submit/src/gdb/gdb.c:28
28 memset (&args, 0, sizeof args);
(gdb) info b
Num Type Disp Enb Address What
1 breakpoint keep y 0x0040107a in main at
../../gdb-server_submit/src/gdb/gdb.c:28
breakpoint already hit 1 time
(gdb)
I could swear there use to be a "pending resolved"
notice. Did it go away with the multiple breakpoint
location support?
--
Pedro Alves
2007-12-07 Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
* breakpoint.c (break_command_1): Update pending breakpoint query
text.
* linespec.c (symtab_from_filename): Don't call error if there are
no symbols loaded. Update message.
(decode_variable): Likewise.
---
gdb/breakpoint.c | 3 ++-
gdb/linespec.c | 14 ++++++--------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Index: src/gdb/breakpoint.c
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/breakpoint.c 2007-12-06 20:53:32.000000000 +0000
+++ src/gdb/breakpoint.c 2007-12-07 00:07:14.000000000 +0000
@@ -5505,7 +5505,8 @@ break_command_1 (char *arg, int flag, in
/* If pending breakpoint support is auto query and the user
selects no, then simply return the error code. */
if (pending_break_support == AUTO_BOOLEAN_AUTO &&
- !nquery ("Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? "))
+ !nquery (_("\
+Make breakpoint pending on future symbol file addition? ")))
return e.reason;
/* At this point, either the user was queried about setting
Index: src/gdb/linespec.c
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/linespec.c 2007-10-03 01:16:04.000000000 +0100
+++ src/gdb/linespec.c 2007-12-06 23:53:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -1534,11 +1534,11 @@ symtab_from_filename (char **argptr, cha
file_symtab = lookup_symtab (copy);
if (file_symtab == 0)
{
- if (!have_full_symbols () && !have_partial_symbols ())
- error (_("No symbol table is loaded. Use the \"file\" command."));
if (not_found_ptr)
*not_found_ptr = 1;
- throw_error (NOT_FOUND_ERROR, _("No source file named %s."), copy);
+ throw_error (NOT_FOUND_ERROR,
+ _("Source file not found in loaded symbols: %s"),
+ copy);
}
/* Discard the file name from the arg. */
@@ -1744,13 +1744,11 @@ decode_variable (char *copy, int funfirs
if (msymbol != NULL)
return minsym_found (funfirstline, msymbol);
- if (!have_full_symbols () &&
- !have_partial_symbols () && !have_minimal_symbols ())
- error (_("No symbol table is loaded. Use the \"file\" command."));
-
if (not_found_ptr)
*not_found_ptr = 1;
- throw_error (NOT_FOUND_ERROR, _("Function \"%s\" not defined."), copy);
+ throw_error (NOT_FOUND_ERROR,
+ _("Function not found in loaded symbols: %s"),
+ copy);
}