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List:       hpux-devtools
Subject:    HPUX-DEVTOOLS: debugging shared libs
From:       Michael Ehrig <michael_ehrig () hp ! com>
Date:       1999-03-25 5:56:26
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I am posting Mike's response since he can't write to the mail list directly.
Thanks a lot!
             Michael

> Michael,
> 
> wdb should be able to debug explicitly loaded shared libraries.
> >From the standpoint of wdb, we get the same notices from dld.sl
> about an explicit library load as an implicit load.  So, there is
> something else going on.
> 
> A few possible guesses:
>    * Is the main executable stripped?  If so, we added support
>      for this in our forthcoming 1.1 revision.
>    * Are you attaching to an executable already running?  If so,
>      the current dld only reads the flags on startup, not after
>      attach.  There is an outstanding defect on this.
> 
> Something else is going on here in addition to explicit loads
> vs. implicit loads.
> 
> --mev, Mike Vermeulen
> 

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