Re: please explain some terms!

Eli Zaretskii
2000-08-20T23:33:00Z

> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
> >
> > 1) Could someone please explain the meaning of the word 'flathead',
> > found in gdbmi.texinfo?
>
> Hmm...., er,.... Flathead is a fish. This was the internal name we
> gave to the GDB MI project. :-)

Does that mean that we should now replace all occurences of "flathead"
in gdbmi.texinfo with "GDB/MI"?
From ac131313@cygnus.com Sun Aug 20 23:33:00 2000
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
Cc: Dmitry Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: please explain some terms!
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:33:00 -0000
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Elena Zannoni wrote:
>
> Dmitry Sivachenko writes:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > 1) Could someone please explain the meaning of the word 'flathead',
> > found in gdbmi.texinfo?
>
> Hmm...., er,.... Flathead is a fish. This was the internal name we
> gave to the GDB MI project. :-)

Or to be more exact, this fish :-)

http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/root/domino/infseries/infsheet.nsf/6adff5ed78795dc64a256516001f223e/fecf011a7b088aff4a2566430022630d?OpenDocument

Flathead was originally refered to as ``headless gdb''.

Andrew
From Don.Sharp@dddandr.octacon.co.uk Mon Aug 21 03:25:00 2000
From: Don Sharp <Don.Sharp@dddandr.octacon.co.uk>
To: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: gdb-5.0 on HPUX 11.00
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:25:00 -0000
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Has anyone got a working gdb-5.0 implemented on HPUX 11.00 ?
I've successfully built gdb-5.0 but when attempting to use it to debug
our program we get the message

(gdb) file bin/HPUXourprogram
Reading symbols from bin/HPUXourprogram...I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do
that. Symbol format `som' unknown.
(gdb)

We are running
HP-UX ourmachine B.11.00 U 9000/800
with gcc-2.95.2 and binutils-2.10 and configure recognizes the system as
hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00.

Please CC any replies to me as I am not a regular member of this list.

TIA

Don Sharp
From info@meet-electronics.com Mon Aug 21 04:14:00 2000
From: meet-electronics <info@meet-electronics.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: GNU tools for Hitachi H8/300H and H8S
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 04:14:00 -0000
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Dear Gentleman / Madam,

It is now the third time I am trying to reach someone at GNU and I am always
getting my mail returned with the comment to send it somewhere else.
PLEASE do not tell me to send this email elsewhere. Instead, please just
forward it to the competent person for me. THANK YOU !!
If this is the kind of support I am must expect to get from GNU, then I am
rather scared !
(please note: I already registered to your mailing list as:
ric@meet-electronics.com)

Here's my original email, for which I am still waiting for an answer:

I am a project engineer of MEET Ltd, a HW / SW design company.
For a new project, I am for the first time considering to use GNU
development tools.
The processor that we want to use is either a H8/300H or H8S from Hitachi.

We received a CD from Hitachi, containing evaluation versions of different
development tools, among those GNU from Cygnus.

For debugging, we would like to use a ROM Monitor system, consisting of a PC
(running GDD) that connects to the target board thru a RS232 interface. I
understand that for this purpose, a special software must be first installed
on the target board's processor. I think that you call this software "STUB".

(we would like to avoid the purchase of an emulator, since this is just a
small project with a small budget).

On the Hitachi CD, I could find several "stub.c" files, however none of them
is for the H8/300H or for the H8S (but there's one, for example, for the
SH).

Since I am not very familiar with GNU tools, may I kindly ask you to answer
my following 6 (six) questions:

1.
Do "stub.c" files for the H8/300H or H8S already exist and where can we find
them ?

2.
In order to get a working version of stub software, ready to be burned in to
the target board's eprom, what amount of work do we have to expect (hours /
weeks) ? (remind that we have no experience with GNU, but we have plenty of
experience with other development tools)

3.
Is the "stub.c" file the only one that is needed, or are other files
required in order to build a complete stub software that can be burned into
the target board's eprom ? If other files are needed, which ones ?

4.
Where are the low level RS232 input/output handler routines (I could not
find them in the provided "stub" file examples) ?

5.
How/where can we tell the stub software about the memory map and other
hardware configurations (RAM location, ROM location, bus size, wait states
etc,) ?

6.
Are there already compiled versions of stub software, ready to be burned
into eprom, for example for a H8S/2345 target board (e.g. versions that use
the processor's RS232 port) ?

Thank you for your quick reply.

Regards.
R. Monleone
email: ric@meet-electronics.com
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