Re: Need help on Solaris -g stabs

casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Wed, 30 Nov 1994 06:14:08 GMT

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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 06:14:08 GMT
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djones@corp.megatest.com (Dave Jones) writes:


>I have some debugger type software that I need to port to Sun OS 5.3
>(Solaris II). My problem is that the symbol table entries ("stab's") for
>function parameters do not seem to be propagated into shared libraries.
>For example, I have a routine named "shared_routine" with a parameter
>called "parameter" in file "foo.cc".


You need to pass the -xs switch to the compiler.




>But when I create a shared library with the file foo.o in it, I find no
>such information. Where did it go? Sun's dbx-based debugger (called,
>appropriately enough, "debugger") finds the information somewhere. Where,
>pray tell?




One good way to find out stuff like this is:


truss -t open dbx


Casper
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