I have a situation in which I'm remotely debugging an application which uses a static library. Both the static library and the application are built with the -g flag, and there are debug entries shown on objdump -t lib.a | grep debug.
However, the debugger only stops the breakpoints in the functions of the main application, but ignores the ones in the static lib. I do a print statement in the lib which gets executed but a breakpoint on the same place is ignored. The lib source is also available. I'm using Qt creator for the debugging interface.
My question is if there is a way to debug this setup? Can gdb print some log messages at run time that could point to the error?
what does it say when you set the breakpoint? type:
and see if your breakpoints are enabled. If you have optimization enabled, the code that you refer to may be optimized out.