Re: Semihosting output on ARM7TDMI

Andrew Cagney
2001-08-14T09:11:00Z

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:33:02AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> > It looks like it needs to be changed so that it is
>> > pre-initialized so that stdin, stdout, and stderr are
>> > "pre-opened". I think you'll need to change the code in
>> > rdi-share/hsys.c HostSysInit() so that fds 0,1,2, are
>> > initialized to map to FILE pointers stdin, stdout, stderr.
>
>>
>> Almost. The theory is right.
>>
>> For output the ``struct ui_file'' objects gdb_std*, normally target
>> output is sent to gdb_stdtarg (one day I'll remember to rename it to
>> gdb_targout).
>
>
> Er, wha?
>
> The routines in rdi-remote/hsys.c have no idea that gdb is "up
> there" somewhere.
>
> The RDI file table is in a structure defined like so:
>
> typedef struct {
> FILE *FileTable[HSYS_FOPEN_MAX] ;
> char FileFlags[HSYS_FOPEN_MAX] ;
> char *TempNames[UNIQUETEMPS];
> } OSblock;

If you don't route the output from the target through gdb_stdtarg then
people, using GUI's, will complain that their output disappears or turns
up in the wrong place. gdb_stdtarg captures all output and then passes
it through to things like the console.

How you manage to get the output routed to gdb_stdtarg, er, isn't my
problem :-)

> It would be possible to make these routines "gdb aware" but
> they aren't at the moment -- semi-hosting requests are handled
> below the gdb<->RDI interface.

It isn't so much GDB aware not assume that the world is a UNIX tty.

>> For input, things get messy, if you look at remote.c and fixme's from me
>> there are hopefully enough hints on how it can be done, in theory. It
>> is made complicated by the fact that there is an event look wanting a
>> look-in.
>
>
> I think you're looking at the wrong target. [;)]

The theory is the same. remote.c contains a working example of
correctly wired output. It also contains a nasty hack, from
Cygnus/Cisco, to both co-ordinate target output and GDB input.

How much of that you need for tty UNIX I don't know. I do know that and
a lot more are needed to get GDB handling this correctly in a GUI
environment.

Andrew