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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Juha Aaltonen <turbopultti@gmail.com>,
	       gdb-mailing list <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Bare metal "server" - cleaning up after a program
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 09:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56178847.30605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHR0xd4Otr2YPgKgaJqmRmk-7+68oyx+YSAbeRk+3q-4wZETYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/08/2015 11:27 PM, Juha Aaltonen wrote:
> I've been writing some kind of bare metal standalone gdb server/stub
> that works through a serial line.
> 
> The problem is: when to clean up between debugged programs?
> I have been wondering about the beginning of loading in a new program
> ("X0,0"-packet).
> Maybe there is a better way/situation.
> 
> Gdb seems so focused to debugging processes running within an OS, that
> "interpretation" in context of bare metal environment is hard.

I find it hard to answer the question, because I don't really understand
what you mean by "clean up".  Maybe you want to
use "target extended-remote" instead, and be able to use "kill" and "run"?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-09  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-08 22:27 Juha Aaltonen
2015-10-08 22:40 ` Juha Aaltonen
2015-10-08 22:59 ` Duane Ellis
2015-10-09  9:26 ` Pedro Alves [this message]

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