Symbol tables of dynamically loaded objects in gdb

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From: Bing-Qing Chen
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 02:42

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I was trying to figure out how to add symbol tables of dynamically loaded
objects to gdb. According to the GDB document, I tried the following
commands: "load file", "load-file file" and "add-symbol-file file addr".
The first command returns "You can't do that when your target is `exec'"
if the program is not running or "You can't do that when your target is
`child'" when it is running, I wonder when I can use the "load" command?!
The second command seems to do nothing, while the third command does not
recognize address argument and it crashes gdb with "Segmentation fault"
if no address is given. This is really frustrating. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bing Chen
bchen@cco.caltech.edu

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Subject: Symbol tables of dynamically loaded objects in gdb
Date: 25 Dec 1992 02:42:15 GMT
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