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From: bela@tharr.UUCP (Bela Vizy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: gdb for "cross-debugging"
Message-ID: <1964@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 12:53:28 GMT
References: <20926@samsung.samsung.com>
Reply-To: bela@tharr.UUCP (Bela Vizy)
Organization: Power Microsystems Ltd
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In article <20926@samsung.samsung.com> reinhard@tristar.samsung.com (Steven Reinhardt) writes:
>
>Has anyone out there built gdb for cross-platform debugging?
>We have a remote kernel debug setup that uses gdb as a front
>end to talk to a monitor on the target machine, but thus far
>we've only been in situations where the host & target were
>the same architecture.  We may need to build gdb on a SPARC
>or 386 to debug an 88k target.  I'd appreciate hearing from
>anyone who's done this (especially for an 88k target).

I have a cross-debugger or remote-debugger running on a MC68010, SYSV
machine. I intended to use it to debug motorola based VME interface
cards. I wrote an 'almost workable' server for mc68000. The communication
between the gdb and the server was thru a piece of dual-ram wich was on the
interface card. (The card itself was a serial-paralell interface.)

It run pretty nice but it was just a hobby and I had no time to finish it.

Now I would like to contact somebody who has experiences with GDB and
the texas TMS processors because I try to write the same cross-debugger
for TMS 34020 . 

Cheers

Bela
( bela@videoton.hu )