[CC'd to port-pmax, in case this helps somebody else]

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

> On Apr  2,  3:06pm, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Hmm.  I guess I didn't do enough testing.  The problem actually comes in
> > when I try to attach to a running process.  When I try that, it says my
> > stack frame is named ??, and it's the only stack frame that exists.

>   You need to tell gdb to load the symbols:
> 
> news$ cc -g -static -o x x.c
> news$ ./x &
> news$ jobs
> [1] 2535                      ./x
> (gdb) attach 2535
> Attaching to process 2535
> 0x401744 in ?? ()
> (gdb) symbol x
> Reading symbols from x...done.
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x401744 in nanosleep () at nanosleep:2
> #1  0x40170c in sleep ()
> #2  0x4013dc in main () at x.c:4
> 
>   Look any better?  [I linked the target program static so that library symbols
> would be available.  The mips gdb doesn't handle shared libraries too well
> yet.]

Wonderful.  I can now proceed to debug our latest xdm/xterminal conflict.
:)

The info about linking statically is very useful, too.  Thanks.

Chris

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