debugging shared libraries

[Torsten Blank]

Dear Debuggers,

i have some problems to debug shared libraries with gdb. I don't know
if there is a solution for them, but i hope so. I use gdb 4.18 and ld
2.9.5 under a Linux-kernel 2.2.16. What i do is the following:

First, i set a breakpoint in the main-executable, so that all shared
libraries can be loaded. Than i set a breakpoint (or even many) in a
function, which is located in one of the shared libraries (which i
have compiled with "-g" and linked with "-shared"). That all work
fine, but if i "continue" the program, it will skip all the
breakpoints in the shared library. Is that a bug, a feature or is that
my fault?

        Thanks in advance,    Torsten

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Torsten Blank
Institut fuer Theoretische Physik der Uni Karlsruhe
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