[lug] [OT] gdb question

[rm at fabula.de]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:14:40PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Ralf> anyone here that know about the status of the 'future-break'
> Ralf> command that Apple added to gdb?
> 
> It sits on a branch, unmerged.  Recently there's been more interest in
> the gdb MI code; future-break is peripherally related to that so you
> might eventually see it go in.  future-break, or something like it, is
> really required to write a decent GUI for gdb (we ran into problems
> with saving breakpoints in Insight due to lack of this).
> 
> Ralf> I kind of got used to this feature and it would shure be handy
> Ralf> for debugging apache modules.
> 
> Yup.  To solve this problem in libgcj, I set a breakpoint on the
> function that loads the library, and then I put commands on that
> breakpoint which set a breakpoint in the newly loaded module.  It's a
> pain, but it works ok.  If I want to do this more than once I put it
> into a file that I can source into gdb.

Thanks for the answer,

yes i do the gdb-script aproach right now, but as you say, it's a
major pain. Apache loads a lot of modules and i need to check on 
the module name in my script. Also, rerunning the program after a
segfault seems not to work.

 Ralf