Re: tlug: debugging shared objects

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:

> Scott Stone writes:
>  > 
>  > apparently not.  I can't 'b subroutine', though, until the symbols from
>  > the shared object are loaded - this is what I'm unable to do.  I can work
>  > around it by setting a breakpoint where the dlopen() happens.  After that
>  > line, I can set breakpoints wherever I want to... 
>  > 
> Maybe you can load the symbols with add-shared-symbol-files or
> add-symbol-file. I currently have no source code here that I could
> test it on.

What argument do you pass for the TEXT pointer to add-symbol-file, though?
I couldn't figure that out.

BTW, if you download the turbonetcfg .src.rpm from the
/pub/turbolinux-3.0-updates/SRPMS on ftp.pht.com, that uses dlopen and
that is, in fact, the program in question here.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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