debugger problems

[Gregory M. Turner]

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 12:57 pm, Eric Pouech wrote:
> > poking around I find that the for loop in DEBUG_RegisterStabsDebugInfo
> > (in programs/winedbg/msc.c) never finds the .stab or .stabstr sections...
> > not sure if they are really there or not.  For example, for ntdll, it
> > finds only .data and .text....  Not sure what's really wrong here; for
> > now, it's my bedtime :P
>
> do you mean the one in msc.c or the one in stabs.c ?
> the one in msc.c is only used to support PE modules when compiled under
> mingw. The one you're interested in is in stabs.c (it's for ELF modules).
> A+

aha!  Well, I'm afraid I definitely was messing with msc.c (what you say makes 
perfect sense, I had wondered why stabs stuff was there (I guess for mingw as 
you mention)).  Armed with this info I'll take another look.  For presumably 
transient reasons which I don't quite fathom, my gdb won't debug wine right 
now either... so I'm simply using creative TRACE's for now... yuck.

I had followed ctags from DEBUG_LoadModule32 in module.c into msc.c... I 
guess, instead, I should be looking at the path: 

  winedbg.c:DEBUG_HandleDebugEvent ->
    stabs.c:DEBUG_ReadExecutableDbgInfo

?

Thanks for your help.

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