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Re: gdb doesn't work very well with dynamic linked binaries
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
> > If it won't be fixed in 5.1, I will follow your hints and implement a
> > Linux only solution when it happens to me again.
>
> A generic x86 solution would be preferable, but a clean, well
> documented Linux-only solution is certainly welcome.
Given do it clean, do it fast and make it to work, you can only
pick 2 if I am the only one to do it. Since I don't have much time
to do it, I have to pick do it fast.
>
> I can do this Very Soon (tm) provided that I hear a GO from The Powers
> That Be. Andrew? Stan? What say you?
>
> > Hardware watchpoints
> > have been known to be broken on Linux/ia32 for a long time and nothing
> > has been done to it.
>
> Apparently nobody cares enough. It isn't at the top of my priority
> list so if nobody else contributes the necessary code, it probably
> won't happen in the near future.
It has to be fixed in 5.1, one way or the other. The worst case is
I will make my kludge available to the Linux community.
H.J.