Re: RTOS awareness

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>]

> Nick:
> 
> 
> Pardon me from providing an incomplete answer, but you may also
> consider just having some "helper functions" with your stub or
> application that provide the needed functionality via printf()
> (redirected to gdb's console, for example).  You would call those
> functions from gdb's command line, rather than mucking with gdb source
> code.  No gdb mods required.
> 
> Just a thought.  I think eCos (another RTOS) uses this technique.

Also look at writing a few GDB scripts.  See ``printf''.  No reason to 
even write this in C.

Andrew


> b.g.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:20:19AM +1000, Nicolas Moreau wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> I would like to write a UCOS II (embedded RTOS) awarness module 
>> for GDB to use on our embedded system. 
>> What I want to display is the data structure associated with each 
>> task, the display has to be in a user friendly format (no raw memory 
>> dump)
>> Where can I start ?
>> How can I extend the fucntionality of UCOS ?
>> What source files should I be looking at ?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
> 
> 
> -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com