From: "james osburn" <jjosburn@hotmail.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Cc: ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
Subject: Re: what are gdbstubs?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY13-F280D68322C06E44589328AD8400@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4242F368.3030509@codito.com>
I have been reading the gdb docs and as i interpret them
i need to link the gdb stub file with my excecuteable
to do remote debugging. is this correct?
do you have any experience with this?
jim
>From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com>
>To: james osburn <jjosburn@hotmail.com>
>CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>Subject: Re: what are gdbstubs?
>Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:35:44 +0530
>
>james osburn wrote:
>>what are gdbstubs?
>
>GDB when used with embedded targets requires a "stub" on the target side to
>communicate with for information about the debuggee's context. These
>requests(from gdb) could include queries about the status of the register
>contents on the debuggee side and memory conditions. One also needs a stub
>to inform gdb that the debuggee has stopped or has exited / allow GDB to
>attach to the debuggee etc.
>
>(If you were debugging an application on a native i386 / linux machine you
>would be using ptrace and the kernel informs the debugger that the debuggee
>has stopped because of the wait sys call ) .
>
>HTH
>cheers
>Ramana
>
>>thanks
>>jim
>>
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>--
>Ramana Radhakrishnan
>GNU Tools
>codito ergo sum (www.codito.com)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-24 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-24 16:58 james osburn
2005-03-24 17:08 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-24 22:55 ` james osburn [this message]
2005-03-24 23:08 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-24 23:12 ` james osburn
2005-03-24 23:15 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-24 23:25 ` tracing ( was Re: what are gdbstubs?) james osburn
2005-03-24 23:44 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-24 23:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-24 23:48 ` james osburn
2005-03-24 23:59 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-25 0:09 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
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