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From: andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas)
Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug
Subject: not a bug, question about how to...
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Date: 17 Dec 89 19:52:37 GMT
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Sorry to post to this newsgroup.  Couldn't think of anything else.

I have a program written in common lisp, which links a set of
libraries written in C and compiled with gcc.  The lisp program
crashes in the C section of code, and dumps core.  The backtrace of
the core cannot locate the symbols for the function where the crash
takes place.  However, I know which function it is, but cannot tell
gdb to use that function.  I can load the symbols from the .o file
containing the function, but there I am stuck.  Is there any way to
tell gdb that the ?? in the backtrace in fact belongs to a particular
function whose symbols can be provided?  If not, is there a reason why
this is so?

Thanks for any and all responses.