From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-07-10T00:01:22+09:00
Subject: debugging extensions with gdb

I know this is slightly off-topic, since it's really more of a gdb
question than a ruby question.  My appologies.

I need to place a breakpoint in a Ruby extension.  I can't do this
before the program runs, because the extension hasn't yet been loaded.
So I'm currently doing this by:
  1) b main
  2) run
  3) b rb_f_require
  4) c
  5) When the program breaks in rb_f_require, continue until I hit the
     dln_load call.
  6) Place my breakpoint at the appropriate place in the extension.

Something tells me, though, that there must be a better way to do this.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul