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Re: too many "no debugging symbols found" messages from shared libs
- From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: "Doug Evans" <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>, "Mark Kettenis" <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:06:51 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: too many "no debugging symbols found" messages from shared libs
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:57:24 +0100 (CET)
> >> From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> >> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, brobecker@adacore.com,
> >> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >>
> >> Sorry I'm a bit late in this discussion, but I do really like the
> >> messages
> >> about missing symbol info for shared libraries. To me they provide an
> >> important hint that my debugging session is likely to run into problems
> >> at
> >> some point.
> >
> > You can still have that, just set the verbose option on.
>
> An alternative is to key the "no debugging symbols found" message off
> of "set print symbol-loading on" for shared libs. I kind of like this
> better. It's on by default. Folks with tons of shared libs probably
> want to turn symbol loading messages off anyway.
I like that idea.