Re: [Dprobes] symbols not available

[Mike G. <gr...@wi...>]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:11:19PM -0400, Lijun Chen wrote:
> to test a dprobe program first. But I always got the "symbols not available" errors
> even if I copy the symbol file to the current directory.

Yep, that would be right. The external symbols file is only for kernel
probes. The exec you are trying to place probe points in has been
stripped, so libbfd can't find any symbols in it. If you can figure out
where main is in the assembler dump from the stripped file you can
create a probepoint file using offset=0x...

To get the address, use objdump and the offset is the address of the
line you want to probe - the load vaddr. Remember to use a 32bit value
for the opcode on ppc.

Mike