Debugging symbols with nasm

[Vladimir Ciobanu]

  I'm not sure whether this is the best list to post to, but it's my 
first guess. I'm using nasm to compile some code I wrote. The 
developer-handbook suggests I use "-f elf", so that's what I did. Then I 
linked it with ld. The program works as expected, but I can't debug it 
with gdb; it reports "no debugging symbols found".
  I've tried to get the possible debugging formats nasm can output, and 
I get "null" for both elf and aoutb ( ld can't even link aoutb .o files ).
  Is there a way I could debug my nasm-compiled assembler sources, 
preferably with gdb ? I don't mind any binary format that can run on 
FreeBSD, nor any other linker.
  Any suggestions are welcome.

For completeness, here's the versions of the tools I used, and FreeBSD:

FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
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GNU ld version 2.13.2 [FreeBSD] 2002-11-27
 Supported emulations:
  elf_i386_fbsd
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NASM version 0.98.35 compiled on Aug 13 2003
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GNU gdb 5.2.1 (FreeBSD)


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