Hi Max, Max Filippov wrote, > 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.
Okay, thanks for your feedback. I think I will just discard the patch and locally hack out the calls for now. Maybe when alpha ld.so is working and the failure still exist, I add another option to disable these calls via make menuconfig. best regards Waldemar _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@uclibc-ng.org https://mailman.uclibc-ng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
