gdb and Dll

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:11:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:57:16PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>
>>>There is one long-standing "gotcha" in debugging dlls however.  Currently
>>>you can only set breakpoints on line numbers not on symbol names if the
>>>dll is not loaded.  That is you can't do:
>>>
>>>  dll-symbols foo.dll
>>>  bp foo
>>>
>>>You have to, instead do:
>>>
>>>  dll-symbols foo.dll
>>>  list foo
>>>  bp <first line of foo>
>>
>>Weird.  Create a bug report.
>
>There already is one, I believe, complete with patch, which I'm testing
>now.  I'd give you a URL but my browser is sick right now.  I just did a
>search for a topic with dll in it in gnats and found it.  This was after
>Joel B.  suggested that a number of PRs had been filed for dll handling.

The GNATS id is 780 and the patch enclosed therein seems to work ok.

cgf