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Re: [Linux-ia64] debuggers - ia64 gdb stubs?
- From: Jim Wilson <wilson at redhat dot com>
- To: piet delaney <piet at freebsd dot piet dot net>
- Cc: Rags <rags at freebsd dot piet dot net>, linux-ia64 at linuxia64 dot org, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 30 Mar 2002 12:41:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] debuggers - ia64 gdb stubs?
- References: <EAF7540DFBCCD311BC9900A0C9D4BE610AE2C3@exchange.northwesttechnical.com><000101c1d679$724fbde0$1601a8c0@northwesttechnical.com><20020329064011.A6198@www.piet.net><20020329142309.A8255@www.piet.net>
>HP has an exceptional version of GDB, KWDB, that can do src debugging
>over the internet and it appears to have been ported to ia64.
Standard gdb can do this. It is called gdbserver, and it has been a part of
gdb since 1993.
Before we had hardware, initial gdb work was done by running gdbserver under
linux on the simulator, and then connecting to it via tcp/ip from a cross-gdb
running on an x86-linux machine. This was much faster than trying to run an
interactive gdb session under linux on the simulator.
The IA-64 gdbserver support is still there, but I don't know if anyone has
used it since we got hardware. See the src/gdb/gdbserver directory in the
FSF GDB source tree.
Jim