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Re: RTOS awareness


Hi Bill

We are not using a stub but a JTAG interface to the processor (ARM7 core), can we 
still redirect the printf ?
How can you call a function form the GDB command line ?

Thanks

Nick

On 6 Aug 2002 at 20:33, William A. Gatliff wrote:

Date sent:      	Tue, 6 Aug 2002 20:33:50 -0500
From:           	"William A. Gatliff" <bgat@billgatliff.com>
To:             	Nicolas Moreau <nicolas@enttec.com>
Copies to:      	gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject:        	Re: RTOS awareness
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> Nick:
> 
> 
> Pardon me from providing an incomplete answer, but you may also
> consider just having some "helper functions" with your stub or
> application that provide the needed functionality via printf()
> (redirected to gdb's console, for example).  You would call those
> functions from gdb's command line, rather than mucking with gdb source
> code.  No gdb mods required.
> 
> Just a thought.  I think eCos (another RTOS) uses this technique.
> 
> 
> b.g.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:20:19AM +1000, Nicolas Moreau wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I would like to write a UCOS II (embedded RTOS) awarness module for
> > GDB to use on our embedded system. What I want to display is the
> > data structure associated with each task, the display has to be in a
> > user friendly format (no raw memory dump) Where can I start ? How
> > can I extend the fucntionality of UCOS ? What source files should I
> > be looking at ?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Gatliff
> bgat@billgatliff.com
> 



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