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In this case things are slightly more complex because it is not possible to
start the main program and then break at the beginning to load the DLL and the
associated DLL debugging information. It is not possible to break at the
beginning of the program because there is no GDB debugging information,
and therefore there is no direct way of getting initial control. This
section addresses this issue by describing some methods that can be used
to break somewhere in the DLL to debug it.
First suppose that the main procedure is named main (this is for
example some C code built with Microsoft Visual C) and that there is a
DLL named test.dll containing an Ada entry point named
ada_dll.
The DLL (see Introduction to Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)) must have been built with debugging information (see GNAT -g option).