From 051904853a0bccd798753ec34189e0d9c6e7a06a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:25:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Back initial version of Alex Larsson's change off the branch, so we can revise it. --- gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 23 ----------------------- 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index bb7313485f4..56db6ca04fe 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -10206,29 +10206,6 @@ Mb). Display the current autoloading size threshold, in megabytes. @end table -On @sc{elf} based systems, @value{GDBN} supports automatically loading -symbol tables and debug information from a file separate from the -executable. This works by putting information in the executable about -the name and checksum of the file with debug information. When -@value{GDBN} reads such an executable it automatically tries to locate -the debug file and load it. - -@value{GDBN} searchs for the file first in the same directory as the -executable, and then in a subdirectory called @file{.debug}. -If both these fail @value{GDBN} looks in the global debug directory, with the -full pathname of the executable. So if you are loading -@file{/usr/bin/ls} and it references the debug file @file{ls.debug} -@value{GDBN} will look for @file{usr/bin/ls.debug} in the global debug -directory. - -@table @code -@kindex set debug-file-directory -@item set debug-file-directory @var{directory} -Set the global directory where @value{GDBN} searches for separate -debug files to @var{directory}. -@end table - - @node Symbol Errors @section Errors reading symbol files -- 2.47.2