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Re: win32 native-process GDB target?

To: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>, Todd Whitesel <toddpw at windriver dot com>
Subject: Re: win32 native-process GDB target?
From: muller at cerbere dot u-strasbg dot fr
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:01:08 +0100
Cc: GDB Developers <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <200003152347.PAA13106@alabama.wrs.com><200003152347.PAA13106@alabama.wrs.com>

At 18:52 15/03/00 -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:47:38PM -0800, Todd Whitesel wrote:
>>Am I correct in assuming that the cygwin GDB requires its debuggee to also
>>be cygwin?
>
>This is not a requirement.  You should be able to debug any windows
>process with a gdb linked with cygwin.  The only caveat is that gdb has
>to understand the debugging format of the executable.  It can't,
>currently, debug executables linked with MSVC.

  It certainly isn't !!!

  I debug win32 executable made by Free Pascal Compiler with
the win32 GDB without problems 
(Free Pascal generates stabs debugging format
but doesn't use any C library !)

References:
- win32 native-process GDB target?
  - From: Todd Whitesel
- Re: win32 native-process GDB target?
  - From: Chris Faylor

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