Package: gdb Version: 6.8-3 Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch intrepid
Hi! With more recent glibc and gcc versions, gdb stack traces for stripped binaries have become by and large useless. Most stack traces just have a few ?? in them, and not even function names or libraries (which must be present *somewhere* after all, otherwise the dynamic linker couldn't even work). This problem has been discussed in depth in a SUSE bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390722 Michael Matz wrote a patch which makes gdb resolve a lot more symbols. I can't claim that I understand it at all, but since nobody from Novell submitted this upstream, I play the messenger here. Please have a look there for the entire discussion. I monkey-patched it to cover x86_64 as well, and it works well for me: http://patches.ubuntu.com/g/gdb/extracted/handle-nodebuginfo-better.patch (See https://launchpad.net/bugs/111869) I originally tried to create an upstream bug report, and just tried it again, but this horrible piece of bug tracker [1] just sends them into oblivion. So I send it here, maybe you know how to drive this thing. :-) Thank you! [1] http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=create&database=gdb -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
