[ECOS] Re: Trying to Debug Ecos using GDB

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:23:48PM -0400, Fahd Abidi wrote:
>> Thank you very much for that tip. I used an example hello world
>> application and linked it to ecos and have an executable image that can
>> be opened with GDB.
>> 
>> But now it seems like the executable image only has the symbols built in
>> for my hello.c program and no other kernel source files are present. How
>> can I build the application + library so that debug information for the
>> entire kernel is also present?
>
> Why would you want to do that? 
>
> eCos is designed for embedded systems where memory is short.

The presence or absense of debug info in the ELF file has no
impact on the footprint of the image.  I used to enable
debug symbols for kernel files when I was troubleshooting
eCos internal stuff, and it didn't require any more memory.

> So linking to the application leaves out everything that is
> not used.

True, but his problem is that he wants debug info for the stuff
that is used.

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