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Scope of this Document
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   This document documents the internals of the GNU debugger, GDB.  It
is intended to document aspects of GDB which apply across many different
parts of GDB (for example, see Coding Style.), or which are global
aspects of design (for example, what are the major modules and which
files document them in detail?).  Information which pertains to specific
data structures, functions, variables, etc., should be put in comments
in the source code, not here.  It is more likely to get noticed and kept
up to date there.  Some of the information in this document should
probably be moved into comments.

README: The README File
Getting Started: Getting started working on GDB
Debugging GDB: Debugging GDB with itself
New Architectures: Defining a New Host or Target Architecture
Config: Adding a New Configuration
Host: Adding a New Host
Native: Adding a New Native Configuration
Target: Adding a New Target
Languages: Defining New Source Languages
Releases: Configuring GDB for Release
Partial Symbol Tables: How GDB reads symbols quickly at startup
Types: How GDB keeps track of types
BFD support for GDB: How BFD and GDB interface
Symbol Reading: Defining New Symbol Readers
Cleanups: Cleanups
Wrapping: Wrapping Output Lines
Frames: Keeping track of function calls
Remote Stubs: Code that runs in targets and talks to GDB
Longjmp Support: Stepping through longjmp's in the target
Coding Style: Strunk and White for GDB maintainers
Clean Design: Frank Lloyd Wright for GDB maintainers
Submitting Patches: How to get your changes into GDB releases
Host Conditionals: What features exist in the host
Target Conditionals: What features exist in the target
Native Conditionals: Conditionals for when host and target are same
Obsolete Conditionals: Conditionals that don't exist any more
XCOFF: The Object file format used on IBM's RS/6000

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