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From: scheulen@gypsy.ims.fhg.de (Thilo Scheulen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: gdb
Message-ID: <61@gypsy.ims.fhg.de>
Date: 4 Oct 90 10:59:54 GMT
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sklug@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Steven Klug) writes:


>I am using GCC for a project of mine and need to know how to use the
>Gnu debugger gdb.  I'm using the version of GCC whose binaries are
>on atari.archive.  I tried the -gg option but that didn't seem to
>work.  Any help would be appreciated.

I see some problems whit the GDB
 1. I think it's quite difficult to run gdb because gdb asumes 
  that the interface to the debugged programm is via ptrace call's
  that are UNIX special calls for debug processes.

 2. I am not shure if there is a version of gdb which uses 
  relocation information stored in each TOS executable.
  you will have to rewrite GDB in some parts if no one did this
  already ??
   * would be a nice job

And some problems with gcc-ld
 3. you will need a quite different loader ( gcc-ld )
  to build symbol tables with source level debug information

 4. the option -gg is just a special case for GNU
      -g will also work to produce source-level debug info's
  but remember the loader i know does not support the extended 
  debug information.

does any one know if i am wrong ???
 	Thilo Scheulen