Debugging plugins with gdb

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Jeff Saremi <jeffsaremi@yahoo.com> writes:

> I'd like to step into my plugin to see if I can debug it. My plugin currently causes gcc to crash.
> Trying to use "break execute_xxxxx" command in "add-symbol-file myplugin.so" but neither of them work. The first one complains that "function not defined" and the 2nd one says that "the address where xxxx.so has been loaded is missing".
> Try run with the arugments did not help either. After gcc returns, it has unloaded the shared libraries.
> I'd appreciate if anyone would share his experience in successfully debugging a plugin. thanks

What precisely are you doing?

Have you looked at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebuggingGCC ?

Ian