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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb backtrace include library as well as symbol name
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110926063307.GA1031@host1.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7FAB5E.5020705@jguk.org>

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:29:50 +0200, Jon Grant wrote:
> Is there a way to get the "bt" command to output the library or ELF
> binary file that the symbol orginates in? Would be handy if this
> could even be the default:

Yes, this is common RFE.  It was discussed in the thread:
	Re: [patch] GDB 7.2: new feature for "backtrace" that cuts path to file (remain filename)
	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-07/msg00796.html


> #0  0xb7773424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #0 Doesn't show lib. I think this is glibc.

It is Linux kernel provided [vdso], it has DWARF info.


Regards,
Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-26  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-25 22:30 Jon Grant
2011-09-26  6:33 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2011-09-26 15:36   ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-05 18:47     ` Tom Tromey

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