From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5850 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2004 04:46:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5828 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2004 04:46:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Dec 2004 04:46:05 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CbtiA-0000mO-2I; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:45:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:46:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jaimon Jose Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Reading symbols from dynamic symbol table Message-ID: <20041208044558.GA2913@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jaimon Jose , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <41B68423.9080509@Yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41B68423.9080509@Yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:03:39AM +0530, Jaimon Jose wrote: > I have few libraries built with --retain-symbols-file ld option. I > can't see the correct symbols when I open the core file due to this. It > always shows the stack trace with few exported symbols+offset. However, > 'nm' is able to read all the symbols from dynamic symbol table. Is > there a way to instruct gdb to read symbols from dynamic symbol table? It normally does - is this ELF? You'll have to investigate why it isn't working. -- Daniel Jacobowitz