Re: gdb and dynamically loaded code
H.J. Lu writes:
> > Douglas Bates writes:
> > > I have version 4.16-2 of the gdb package installed. When I start gdb
> > > I get the warnings
> > > warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
> > > warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
> > > warning: and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
> > >
> > > It would be very helpful to me to be able to set breakpoints within
> > > dynamically loaded code. Is there something I can change in the
> > > set-up for gdb to allow me to track explicitly loaded dynamic code?
> >
> > Apparently, gdb can not handle a stripped ld-linux.so.1. The symbols
> > gdb wants can be found in the .dynsym section so this could be
> > considered a bug in gdb but I'm not sure. H.J., what do you think?
>
> How do you debug a stripped binary? Unless I am wrong, if you want
> to debug ld-linux.so.1, you have to compile it with -g and don't strip
> it. It doesn't cost much in disk space.
H.J., I think you misunderstood. We aren't debugging ld-linux.so.1.
We are debugging an ordinary binary.
When gdb starts a binary, it looks up the address of _dl_debug_state
so it can set a breakpoint in the dynamic linker to trap the loading
of shared libraries. With a stripped ld-linux.so.1, gdb fails to find
the address of _dl_debug_state and issues the warning shown above.
However, _dl_debug_state is contained in the .dynsym section (which
doesn't get stripped) of ld-linux.so.1, so I'm thinking that it should
be possible for gdb to get the address from there even when
ld-linux.so.1 is stripped.
David
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