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Re: gdb and dynamic loader namespaces
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 05:44:48PM +0100, mathieu lacage wrote:
> > I'm not sure what gdb would really do with them either. It doesn't
> > support multiple namespaces of symbols.
>
> The (probably naive) idea would be to merge them: they live in separate
> address spaces so address lookups should be unique. name lookups, on the
> other hand, could be non-unique but this is nothing new: gdb should
> already be able to handle multiple answers for a single name lookup,
> right ?
Well, mostly it ignores the issue. We could handle them the same as
dlopen which would probably be more useful than ignoring them entirely.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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