Re: [ECOS] Questions about stabs in MIPS executable

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Tim Michals wrote:
> 
> I'm using a third party debugger (JTAG eumulator).  Yes, I can load the
> image using GDB.

Not just load it, but list the source, right? I wouldn't have thought so
because I can't see any debugging sections (.mdebug is naff and not
sufficient).
 
> I'm using the standard ecos .lnk file.  Also here is some more info:

.lnk? you mean .ld? But as I said, that .ld file may not mention the stab
sections!

Look at whether it mentions the .stab and .stabstr etc. sections.

Jifl

I wrote:
> 
> If you just load it up in GDB (even though not downloading) does that work?
> Can you list functions and source files? By the looks of it, that shouldn't
> work, but I want to check :).
> 
> It's possible that the eCos linker script you are using (you don't say
> what) doesn't mention the stabs sections, perhaps because it is normally
> expecting dwarf debug. Check that out.


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