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debugger problem: unable to locate symbol __dyld_object_images

On 18/07/02 21:51, "Scott Taggart" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 05:39 PM 7/18/2002, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 04:58 PM, Scott Taggart wrote:
>>>>>> 3) The fact that you have 'dyld...' symbols in your kernel extension is
>>>>>> one of the 10 warning signs of impending doom. You've managed to build
>>>>>> your extension as if it were user-mode code, which is just not on.
>>>>>> You
>>>>>> have to (a) link statically, not dynamically; and (b) avoid use of libc
>>>>>> or 'stdlib' functionality (except for what's in libkmod and libkmodc++;
>>>>>> a tiny fraction of user-mode functionality).
>>>
>>> Can anyone shed more light one this? Specifically, my kext is just built
>>> starting from one of the samples, so I presume the linking is correct
>>> (how can I tell). Can you tell me how I discover the symbols that are
>>> the problem, etc.?
>>
>> Scott: can you clarify whether you see this (the 'dyld' complaint) when
>> loading your extension (kextload), generating symbols (kmodsyms), or
>> attaching to the remote system (as mentioned by Eugene)?
>
> The latter.

Sorry to reopen the issue, but we still have this under Jag and were
wondering if it could cause problems. I did not investigated though when it
started to do this, but I still have it when attaching to the crashed
machine.

Francis

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Francis Bouchard email@hidden
Groupe vidio Macintosh 1-514-822-6000 ext:2869
Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. Montreal, Quibec, Canada
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