Re: Another problem with debugging the navigator on FreeBSD2.2-STABLE

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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Date
13 Feb 1998 16:51:23
Subject
Re: Another problem with debugging the navigator on FreeBSD2.2-STABLE
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19980214112105.05348@freebie.lemis.com

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On Thu, 12 February 1998 at 20:37:58 -0800, Chris Toshok wrote:
> So, I've gotten around my complete inability to even *run* gdb on the
> navigator, but now I've got another problem: When I hit a breakpoint
> and try to either step or continue, I see:
>
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
>
> Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
> foo_nsFunction (foo=0x0) at foofile.c:192
> (gdb)
>
> The problem is, the breakpoint is at the same place at which the program
> just stopped. The only way to get past this breakpoint is to disable
> the breakpoint and continue. Disabling the breakpoing and stepping
> doesn't work.

It should do. Are you sure that this is the real problem?

> It's getting pretty frustrating, trying to debug a large amount of code
> by setting breakpoints at just about every line of a function and
> disabling one and then enabling another.
>
> Anyone got an idea what could be causing this? Debugging other
> programs works fine. I would imagine that the size of the program
> and it's shared libraries is part of the problem, but what can I do
> to fix it?

Good question. Can you give me a binary to look at?

Greg

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