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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 56db6ca04fe..bb7313485f4 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -10206,6 +10206,29 @@ Mb). Display the current autoloading size threshold, in megabytes. @end table +On @sc{elf} based systems, @value{GDBN} supports automatically loading +symbol tables and debug information from a file separate from the +executable. This works by putting information in the executable about +the name and checksum of the file with debug information. When +@value{GDBN} reads such an executable it automatically tries to locate +the debug file and load it. + +@value{GDBN} searchs for the file first in the same directory as the +executable, and then in a subdirectory called @file{.debug}. +If both these fail @value{GDBN} looks in the global debug directory, with the +full pathname of the executable. So if you are loading +@file{/usr/bin/ls} and it references the debug file @file{ls.debug} +@value{GDBN} will look for @file{usr/bin/ls.debug} in the global debug +directory. + +@table @code +@kindex set debug-file-directory +@item set debug-file-directory @var{directory} +Set the global directory where @value{GDBN} searches for separate +debug files to @var{directory}. +@end table + + @node Symbol Errors @section Errors reading symbol files |