Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 17:12:24 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDB for alpha (nearly) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905021712040.555-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905021638330.555-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Sun, 2 May 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > I have just finished importing GDB-4.18 into FreeBSD-current. At the same > time, I made the thing work properly in FreeBSD/alpha. Unfortunately due > to a technical hitch with CVS which I'm hoping can be cleared up by > someone who understands CVS better than me, the alpha version is missing > exactly one file, alpha-tdep.c. People who would like to try gdb on the > alpha today should copy http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/alpha-tdep.c to > src/contrib/gdb/gdb and tweak the Makefile in src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils to > enable the build. > > I have not tested any kind of postmortem debugging yet (user or kernel). > Normal user coredumps may work but kernel coredumps will certainly not > work. I'm hoping that Andrew Gallatin who made kernel coredumps work on > the alpha might tackle this but if not, I will have a go at it eventually. > > Have fun with it, break it and send me the fixes :-) Hopefully it should > be part of the main build very soon. Like now, in fact.. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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