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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2017-06-11 23:16:01 +0200
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2017-06-11 23:16:28 +0200
commitc4dcb155c446cee135101d72172b47e3fc99caf9 (patch)
tree5e69677386d293f20ddebb33b6dafb327f554588 /gdb/symfile.h
parent9b97dfbf8049bed3b2f79c6c785afaf18206dad3 (diff)
Introduce "set debug separate-debug-file"
I helped someone figure out why their separate debug info (debug link-based) was not found by gdb. It turns out that the debug file was not named properly. It made me realize that it is quite difficult to diagnose this kind of problems. This patch adds some debug output to show where GDB looks for those files, so that it should be (more) obvious to find what's wrong. Here's an example of the result, first with an example of unsuccessful lookup, and then a successful one. (gdb) set debug separate-debug-file on (gdb) file /usr/bin/gnome-calculator Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-calculator... Looking for separate debug info (build-id) for /usr/bin/gnome-calculator Trying /usr/local/lib/debug/.build-id/0d/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug Looking for separate debug info (debug link) for /usr/bin/gnome-calculator Trying /usr/bin/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug Trying /usr/bin/.debug/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug Trying /usr/local/lib/debug//usr/bin/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug (no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) set debug-file-directory /usr/lib/debug (gdb) file /usr/bin/gnome-calculator Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-calculator... Looking for separate debug info by build-id for /usr/bin/gnome-calculator Trying /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/0d/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/0d/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug...done. done. Note: here, the debug link happens to be named like the build-id, but it doesn't have to be this way. It puzzled me for a minute. gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Announce {set,show} debug separate-debug-file commands. * symfile.h (separate_debug_file_debug): New global. * symfile.c (separate_debug_file_debug): New global. (separate_debug_file_exists, find_separate_debug_file): Add debug output. (_initialize_symfile): Add "set debug separate-debug-file" command. * build-id.c (build_id_to_debug_bfd, find_separate_debug_file_by_buildid): Add debug output. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (Optional Messages about Internal Happenings): Document {set,show} debug separate-debug-file commands.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/symfile.h b/gdb/symfile.h
index ab536e8083..bb47fdf7cf 100644
--- a/gdb/symfile.h
+++ b/gdb/symfile.h
@@ -646,4 +646,8 @@ extern void elfmdebug_build_psymtabs (struct objfile *,
extern gdb_bfd_ref_ptr find_separate_debug_file_in_section (struct objfile *);
+/* True if we are printing debug output about separate debug info files. */
+
+extern int separate_debug_file_debug;
+
#endif /* !defined(SYMFILE_H) */