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Re: [RFA] Enhance GDB to break inside DSO init code
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:55:17 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Enhance GDB to break inside DSO init code
- References: <20040723202447.GM20596@gnat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:24:47 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
>
> For more details, you can refer to:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-07/msg00030.html
>
> The trick, as explained in the message above, is to stop on syssgi()
> exit notifications until we can detect that rld has been mapped in
> memory by finding the __dbx_link symbol. [...]
Why, oh why do people go to such great lengths to explain this in a
mail message and/or in the comments to the code, but not as a patch to
gdbint.texinfo? Why not invest a small additional effort (Texinfo
markup) to improve our documentation together with fixing a bug?
Sigh.
Thanks for the patch. (I cannot approve it, though.)