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Re: List command question


"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:27:18 +0200
>> 
>> You can't expect meaningful results without debugging information as
>> nothing else is providing information about source files.
>
> I tried this with GDB 6.1 and the DJGPP toolchain, and GDB said "(no
> debugging symbols found)", which is reasonable, IMHO.
>
> Why didn't it do so in Manoj's case?

Because there is _some_ debugging info, presumably from libc.  And once
gdb has found any debugging info at all it will not say "(no debugging
symbols found)" any more, even if more objects without debugging info are
crossed.

Andreas.

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