Re: GDB commands and GDB protocol

[Guillaume MENANT <guillaume dot menant at geensys dot com>]

Thanks a lot for your answers. Another question : Where does GDB will 
get information about the standard internal registers of my chip (a 
SPARC V8 in my case) ?

Guillaume Menant


Daniel Jacobowitz a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 02:41:17PM +0200, Guillaume MENANT wrote:
>   
> > I've found this page : 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb_33.html#SEC679
> > I still have some questions :
> > - We just have to handle commands from the page above to manage the GDB 
> > protocol (in TCP) ? The is no specific encapsulation ?
> >     
>
> The Overview at the top of that page describes the encapsulation.
>
>   
> > - How does Eclipse will know internal registers of my chip (registers like sp, 
> > pc,  ...) ? Using qXfer and a XML file ? Is it mandatory for a debugger to know 
> > internal registers ?
> >     
>
> The standard registers, like sp and pc, Eclipse will get the names
> directly from GDB.  It's only if you have extra board-specific or
> core-specific registers that you need to deal with XML descriptions.
>
>