RE: GDB Documentation and Request for Help

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 30 March 2007 22:15, Michael Eager wrote:

> Jim Blandy wrote:

>> Michael, your question suggests that you're looking at some code in
>> your old port, and trying to figure out where it goes in your new
>> port.  I would find that a very hard question to answer if I were in
>> your shoes.  Instead, start by reading frame-unwind.h and having your
>> foo_gdbarch_init function call frame_unwind_append_sniffer with a
>> structure containing appropriate functions, written from scratch.
>> 
>> In other words, you may be able to use the old port to understand how
>> your target works, but you'll need to decide afresh how to express
>> that understanding in the new arch description framework.
> 
> That's exactly the approach I'm taking.
> 
>> (Having worked on both, I think the new frame system is *much* nicer
>> to work with, and more reliable.  So your efforts won't be wasted.)
> 
> I'm sure that it is.  It's just not documented.  Reading code from
> other targets to figure out what's needed is, well, challenging.
> 
> I'll take another look at frame-unwind.h.

  I stumbled across a fairly useful document some time ago: "Porting GDB (1) arch and frame v0.4", at 

http://teawater.googlepages.com/epgdb1.pdf

(there's also a .txt equivalent if you'd prefer).  Although it's far from complete, and English is not teawater's first language, it's pretty clear and comprehensible, and has much more up-to-date information than gdbint.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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