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Re: gdb/916: must load _all_ shared libraries to set a breakpoint in one


The following reply was made to PR gdb/916; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: john_roberts@credence.com
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/916: must load _all_ shared libraries to set a breakpoint in one
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:43:03 -0500

 On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:06:16PM -0000, john_roberts@credence.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         916
 > >Category:       gdb
 > >Synopsis:       must load _all_ shared libraries to set a breakpoint in one
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    unassigned
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 09 11:08:01 PST 2003
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     john_roberts@credence.com
 > >Release:        gdb 5.2.1
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > RedHat Linux 2.4.2-2 on 2.2 GHz Pentium IV with 512 meg RAM
 > >Description:
 > I work in an environment with both Linux and Solaris
 > (SunOS 5.6 under CDE on an Sparc Ultra 5).  I have found
 > several problems with the Linux version of gdb that do NOT
 > show up on the Solaris side.
 > 
 >      On Solaris, I can load just one shared library, then
 >      set a breakpoint in it and run (cont) in the debugger
 >      until I hit that breakpoint.
 > 
 >      Under Linux, I must load all shared libraries my
 >      application uses, or else I cannot set a breakpoint
 >      in any of my shared libraries.
 > 
 > Our application is a very large server (probably over
 > a million lines of C++ code) that runs well under both
 > Solaris and Linux (built with g++ in both cases).
 
 Could you give us at least an example session?  i.e. what commands you
 expect to work that don't?
 
 -- 
 Daniel Jacobowitz
 MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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