Hi, I would suggest following patch, which removes the special communication between ld.so and gdb. While debugging a ld.so issue with gdb 8.0 on alpha, I recognized that the debugger stalled when trying to execute this code. It thought this code was added to help debugging ld.so, but it seems nowadays it prevents to do so. May be bitrotted? Does anyone found it useful while debugging ld.so with gdb in the past? best regards Waldemar