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bug#40271: 26.3; gdb-mode fails to initialize if the target executable i
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#40271: 26.3; gdb-mode fails to initialize if the target executable is built without symbols |
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Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:53:20 +0300 |
> From: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:26:12 +0800
> Cc: 40271@debbugs.gnu.org
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> (gdb)
> -file-list-exec-source-file
> ^done,line="1",file="../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S",fullname="/root/glibc-2a0c65c5167af50893952729ba38cc68/glibc-2.30/csu/../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S",macro-info="0"
> (gdb)
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> I am confused, because libc is also expected to be stripped. Is this a gdb
> bug?
I don't think so. start.S is probably the startup module that gets
linked into every program; it is provided by glibc. I don't know
enough about linking on GNU/Linux, but I think if you strip the
binary, this file name will also be stripped, and everything will work
again (except that you will be unable to step through the source).
> Frankly speaking, I just found this by mistake. I forgot to issue
> -ggdb when compiling my code. I'm not a reverse engineer.
Right, that figures. So I'm unsure we should do anything about this
in Emacs. Though maybe we could have a special test for a source file
called "start.S".