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In article <1hdse7INNslm@gap.caltech.edu> bchen@cco.caltech.edu (Bing-Qing Chen) writes:
>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
>

The proper incantation is add-file <filename>, where filename is
the name of an object file produced by rld_load or objc_loadmodules.
You'll probably also want to execute gdb's directory command to
tell gdb the path of the directory you're dynamically-loaded class's
source lives in.

-glen