[olsr-dev] using gdb on the plugins

[Andreas Tønnesen]

Nah... to early in the morning :-) You problem is not getting to the 
breakpoint the first time as I first thought.
Google suggests that this is a common problem - has anybody been able to 
make it work?

- Andreas

Andreas Tønnesen wrote:
> (gdb) set environment LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.2
> (gdb) break check_gw
> Function "check_gw" not defined.
> Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
> 
> Breakpoint 1 (check_gw) pending.
> 
> - Andreas
> 
> Jens Nachtigall wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> using the gdb on olsrd works fine. However, I cannot
>> get the gdb properly working on the plugins, i.e. step into the 
>> plugins, i.e. shared library:
>>
>> (gdb) break check_gw
>> [...]
>> Breakpoint 2, 0x40018f18 in check_gw () from 
>> /home/jens/software/olsrd-current/lib/dyn_gw/olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.2
>> (gdb) step
>> Single stepping until exit from function check_gw,
>> which has no line number information.
>> olsr_printf (loglevel=1, format=0x80540d0 "U\211�203�030@�006\b\213") 
>> at src/olsr.c:594
>> 594       if(loglevel <= olsr_cnf->debug_level)
>> (gdb)
>>
>> So basically gdb seems to skip the plugins' code until a function from 
>> olsrd is called.
>> The mentioned check_gw function is a function in dyn_gw, but taking
>> any other plugin function results in the same "skipping".
>>
>> Do you have the same problem? Any hints on how to get debugging working?
>>
>> I use the cvs version on an Intel.
>>
>> Jens
>>                                       
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