Hi Waldemar, On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Waldemar Brodkorb <w...@uclibc-ng.org> wrote: > I would suggest following patch, which removes the special > communication between ld.so and gdb. > While debugging a ld.so issue with gdb 8.0 on alpha, I recognized > that the debugger stalled when trying to execute this code. > It thought this code was added to help debugging ld.so, but it seems > nowadays it prevents to do so. May be bitrotted? > > Does anyone found it useful while debugging ld.so with gdb in the > past?
AFAIU this code is responsible for notifying gdb of loading/unloading shared objects, not just for ld.so debugging. It makes gdb commands like 'catch load' work, which I occasionally find useful. -- Thanks. -- Max _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@uclibc-ng.org https://mailman.uclibc-ng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
