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Re: The cygmon and gdb stubs
- To: "Edward,Yan-Chi,Lin" <yanchi at oak dot com dot tw>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] The cygmon and gdb stubs
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:12:03 +0000
- Cc: Ecos-Discuss <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <NDBBIJMAFMCKGDEBEFICOEJOFBAA.yanchi@oak.com.tw>
"Edward,Yan-Chi,Lin" wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Could someone tell me the difference between the cygmon and the gdb stub
cygmon is a ROM monitor with a command line and various debugging features.
It is being replaced by RedBoot.
A GDB stub is just a simple piece of code you normally put into ROM to
allow your program to be loaded and debugged by GDB.
cygmon (and RedBoot) contain GDB stubs within them.
Jifl
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