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Re: [rfc] [4/9] Cell multi-arch: Core of the Cell debugger
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:11:08 +0300
- Subject: Re: [rfc] [4/9] Cell multi-arch: Core of the Cell debugger
- References: <200907221716.n6MHG3YW013797@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:16:03 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
>
> Index: src/gdb/NEWS
> ===================================================================
> --- src.orig/gdb/NEWS
> +++ src/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -204,6 +204,20 @@ architecture in addition to those for th
> See the "Target Description Format" section in the user manual for
> more information.
>
> +* Multi-architecture debugging.
> +
> + GDB now includes general supports for debugging applications on
> + hybrid systems that use more than one single processor architecture
> + at the same time. Each such hybrid architecture still requires
> + specific support to be added. The only hybrid architecture supported
> + in this version of GDB is the Cell Broadband Engine.
> +
> +* GDB now supports integrated debugging of Cell/B.E. applications that
> +use both the PPU and SPU architectures. To enable support for hybrid
> +Cell/B.E. debugging, you need to configure GDB to support both the
> +powerpc-linux or powerpc64-linux and the spu-elf targets, using the
> +--enable-targets configure option.
> +
> * New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below)
>
> find [/size-char] [/max-count] start-address, end-address|+search-space-size,
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