Re: gdb is breaking at wrong locations

[David Knuth <dknuth@intellibot.cc>]

On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 05:56  PM, Kevin Buettner wrote:

>> I suspected this also, but I have only one set of sources, did a clean
>> build, and had gdb load the ROM image.  Incidentally, this is how I do
>> it.  If there is a better way, please enlighten me.  (I'm doing this
>> from memory, so the exact wording might be off.)
>>
>>> sudo modprobe bdm
>>> cd src
>>> m68k-unknown-coff-gdb
>> $file ../bin/rom
>> $target bdm /dev/icd_bdm0
>> $r
>> Download source from src/../bin/rom? (y or n) [y] y
>>
>> So, from the above, I don't know how the symbol file and executable
>> could be mismatched because they are the same file, right?
>
> That looks reasonable.
>
> Has it *ever* worked correctly in the past?

I don't know.  I inherited the system from engineers who are gone. So,  
guess my next question is, does it make sense to go to a newer version 
of GDB to try and fix this and if I do this, will I also have to 
upgrade the gcc cross toolchain?

David

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