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Hurrah! Let the champagne flow, the olive oil barrel be opened and the wild, slippery orgy commence! Gary Jennejohn, too studly for his own good, has finally come through with the new, improved gdb 4.13. This gdb features: o kgdb support - if this works (and I urge folks to test it), we can finally purge the old and hateful version of kgdb from our source tree. o attach/detach support. See comments in README.FreeBSD for more details. o Well, it's newer. Our previous version was 4.11. Comments and flames to gj, of course! :-) Thanks, Gary. Much appreciated. The previous state of gdb/kgdb has been a thorn in all of our sides for some time.. Submitted by: gj
1994-12-30 23:27:33 +00:00
This is a greatly pared down version of GDB-4.13 for FreeBSD 2.0. It
also has support for kernel debugging a la the dearly beloved kgdb.
Kernel debugging is enabled either using the -k flag or by linking gdb
to kgdb and invoking it as kgdb. Linking is left up to the discretion
of the user.
GDB-4.12 from ports with support for shlibs but not the kernel. This is a greatly pared down version of the full gdb-4.12, all the config stuff has been removed and the supporting libraries have been stripped to a minimum. This is a 1.1.5 only port, I'll do a more complete port for 2.0 which will have all the config stuff and will install the gnu support libraries as system libraries like we do for readline. There wasn't much point for 1.1.5 since only gdb would use them so I went for saving space instead. For 2.0 I'll config all the other gnu tools to use them as well.
1994-06-10 13:42:18 +00:00
Hurrah! Let the champagne flow, the olive oil barrel be opened and the wild, slippery orgy commence! Gary Jennejohn, too studly for his own good, has finally come through with the new, improved gdb 4.13. This gdb features: o kgdb support - if this works (and I urge folks to test it), we can finally purge the old and hateful version of kgdb from our source tree. o attach/detach support. See comments in README.FreeBSD for more details. o Well, it's newer. Our previous version was 4.11. Comments and flames to gj, of course! :-) Thanks, Gary. Much appreciated. The previous state of gdb/kgdb has been a thorn in all of our sides for some time.. Submitted by: gj
1994-12-30 23:27:33 +00:00
The kernel debugging needs testing, I didn't have any useful crash dumps
available. The new gdb produced the same output as the old kgdb with
what I had available for testing, though.
GDB-4.12 from ports with support for shlibs but not the kernel. This is a greatly pared down version of the full gdb-4.12, all the config stuff has been removed and the supporting libraries have been stripped to a minimum. This is a 1.1.5 only port, I'll do a more complete port for 2.0 which will have all the config stuff and will install the gnu support libraries as system libraries like we do for readline. There wasn't much point for 1.1.5 since only gdb would use them so I went for saving space instead. For 2.0 I'll config all the other gnu tools to use them as well.
1994-06-10 13:42:18 +00:00
Hurrah! Let the champagne flow, the olive oil barrel be opened and the wild, slippery orgy commence! Gary Jennejohn, too studly for his own good, has finally come through with the new, improved gdb 4.13. This gdb features: o kgdb support - if this works (and I urge folks to test it), we can finally purge the old and hateful version of kgdb from our source tree. o attach/detach support. See comments in README.FreeBSD for more details. o Well, it's newer. Our previous version was 4.11. Comments and flames to gj, of course! :-) Thanks, Gary. Much appreciated. The previous state of gdb/kgdb has been a thorn in all of our sides for some time.. Submitted by: gj
1994-12-30 23:27:33 +00:00
There's rudimentary support for attaching to a running process and
debugging (attach/detach commands in gdb). This works best if the
program being debugged was compiled with -g, of course. Be aware that
detaching frequently results in the death of the process being debugged
(Trace/BKPT Trap). Haven't figured what's going on yet. Use this at your
own risk! I had to stop somewhere for the release :-)
GDB-4.12 from ports with support for shlibs but not the kernel. This is a greatly pared down version of the full gdb-4.12, all the config stuff has been removed and the supporting libraries have been stripped to a minimum. This is a 1.1.5 only port, I'll do a more complete port for 2.0 which will have all the config stuff and will install the gnu support libraries as system libraries like we do for readline. There wasn't much point for 1.1.5 since only gdb would use them so I went for saving space instead. For 2.0 I'll config all the other gnu tools to use them as well.
1994-06-10 13:42:18 +00:00
Hurrah! Let the champagne flow, the olive oil barrel be opened and the wild, slippery orgy commence! Gary Jennejohn, too studly for his own good, has finally come through with the new, improved gdb 4.13. This gdb features: o kgdb support - if this works (and I urge folks to test it), we can finally purge the old and hateful version of kgdb from our source tree. o attach/detach support. See comments in README.FreeBSD for more details. o Well, it's newer. Our previous version was 4.11. Comments and flames to gj, of course! :-) Thanks, Gary. Much appreciated. The previous state of gdb/kgdb has been a thorn in all of our sides for some time.. Submitted by: gj
1994-12-30 23:27:33 +00:00
Note that a plain vanilla gdb-4.13 without kernal debugging or
attach/detach support can be made by removing the
#define ATTACH_DETACH
#define KERNEL_DEBUG
lines from gdb/nm.h.
gj@freebsd.org