From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
Cc: GDB <gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: gdb doesn't work very well with dynamic linked binaries
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:49:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000904084934.A11100@lucon.org>
References: <20000901192328.A28312@valinux.com> <200009041047.LAA10659@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00005.html

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:47:13AM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > It is too bad that not many gcc developers using --enable-shared to
> > configure gcc under ia32. See
> 
> Well, on Linux, gdb fails to restart a cc1 / cc1plus executable that is
> statically linked, which makes debugging very tedious.
> So I always patch my Makefile to use static linking.

That is a very annoying bug in gdb 5.0. When I set a breakpoint in
the shared library, I have to disable them before restart. Also it is
very hard to debug ld-linux.so.2:

# gdb ld-linux.so.2



H.J.