From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: "Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <dworley@avaya.com>
Subject: Re: Shared libaries and core files
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111041838.12151.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CD5674C3CD99574EBA7432465FC13C1B225CA60137@DC-US1MBEX4.global.avaya.com>
On Friday 04 November 2011 18:02:21, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote:
> I see that when I give GDB a core file, GDB loads many shared
> libraries into its memory model of the process being debugged. How
> does GDB determine what these libraries are? Does GDB know of
> libraries that are loaded "dynamically" in the course of execution, or
> only those that are loaded at process start time?
The former.
> Naively, I would expect the dynamic loading routines in the process
> would have to keep track of all the loaded libraries, and GDB could
> extract from these data structures the complete list of libraries that
> were loaded at the moment of the process failure.
Correct.
--
Pedro Alves
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2011-11-04 18:02 Worley, Dale R (Dale)
2011-11-04 18:38 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-11-04 19:25 ` Worley, Dale R (Dale)
2011-11-04 20:40 ` Pedro Alves
2011-11-04 20:54 ` Worley, Dale R (Dale)
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