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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
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+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
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+
+In Debian, to get [[debugging]] information for glibc, you need to install the
+`libc0.3-dbg` package.  At the place [[debugging/GDB]] looks for debugging
+symbols by default (`/usr/lib/debug/lib/`), Debian's `libc0.3-dbg` stores only
+the frame unwind information used for backtracing.  If you want to step into
+glibc while debugging, you need to add `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug` to
+debugged program's environment (`set env VAR value` from the GDB command line).
+If that still does not work, try `LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/libc.so.0.3`
+instead.