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From: jb@cs.brown.EDU (Jim Bloom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: gdb on encore...
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 09:49:59 EST
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I don't know where you heard the rumor, but it is true.  A student here is
working on getting gdb running.  He is not trying to get a generic system
configuration file though.

The first problem getting gdb running is that Encore use COFF and not the
Berkeley a.out format.  They also have a different ptrace interface, didn't
ways of accessing the registers in the child process and other problems.

The goal here is not to get gdb running normally, but as a multiprocess
debugger.  Those extensions take extra time as well so I have no idea if
or when we might be able to pass along a version to people.

					Jim