[Crash-utility] Re: source line numbers and modules

[Alan Tyson]

Dave Anderson wrote:

>Alan Tyson wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Could someone please explain why we cannot get source line numbers when
>>disassembling modules?  Is the problem missing functionality in
>>store_load_module_symbols() or is there an inherent limitation with the
>>gdb linked in with crash in that it cannot accept additional debug_line
>>information for modules?  I ask because gdb has this functionality for
>>user-space shared libraries and it seems to work OK.  Or am I missing
>>something which is much more complex?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Alan Tyson,
>>Hewlett-Packard.
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>What architecture?
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x86_64.  Sorry I omitted to mention this.

>I'm presuming that you're running the "mod" command to load
>the debuginfo data from the target module:
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> << working example on i686 snipped >>
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Yes I am.  Indeed it seems that i686 and ia64 work fine.  But x86_64 has 
the problem.

Thanks,
Alan.