what are gdbstubs?

Thu Mar 24 23:15:00 GMT 2005

james osburn wrote:
> a m using uclibc on the 386 platform i am more interested
> in tracing than setting break points. 

What do you exactly mean by tracing ? Function calls or get 
some other trace information ?

> i want a way to remotely
> what my program execute but i dont have a large budget
> (hence the gnu tools)
> any ideas on that?
> jim
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>> From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com>
>> To: james osburn <jjosburn@hotmail.com>
>> CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: what are gdbstubs?
>> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:37:19 +0530
>>
>> Hi ,
>>
>>> I have been reading the gdb docs and as i interpret them
>>> i need to link the gdb stub file with my excecuteable
>>> to do remote debugging.  is this correct?
>>
>>
>> Yes you do.
>>
>>> do you have any experience with this?
>>
>>
>> I have not used *-stub.c for any debugging in a while now. I must say 
>> however that if you were using linux / uClinux on your embedded system 
>> , you could choose to use gdbserver instead in which case the linking 
>> is not required.
>>
>> cheers
>> Ramana
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ramana Radhakrishnan
>> GNU Tools
>> codito ergo sum (www.codito.com)
>>
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Ramana Radhakrishnan
GNU Tools
codito ergo sum (www.codito.com)