RE: Debug PowerPC application with GDB over network on a i386

RE: Debug PowerPC application with GDB over network on a i386

[Frank Smith]

Hi Raphael,

I've used DDD on an x86 host, talking over rsh to
a gdb running on the powerpc target.

It works, but sometimes the communication between the
host and the target isn't very responsive-- I think
there's probably buffereing issues involved.

To try it out, just read the DDD docs. I believe the
invocation of ddd is something like

ddd --host USER@TARGET BINARY


Frank.


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> [mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf Of Raphael
> Bossek
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> Subject: Debug PowerPC application with GDB over network on a i386
>
>
>
> hi all,
>
> is it possible to use a graphical GDB frontend, e.g. DDD, on a i386 and
> debug application running on the PowerPC hardware where gdb is
> running too.
> I'm not talking about debugging the kernel, only simple applications!
> I thing about using the LAN interface for both GDB's... Using someone
> such a environment successfully here ?!
>
> --
> Raphael Bossek <raphael.bossek@solutions4linux.de> [ICQ #40047651]
>
>
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Debug PowerPC application with GDB over network on a i386

[Raphael Bossek]

hi all,

is it possible to use a graphical GDB frontend, e.g. DDD, on a i386 and
debug application running on the PowerPC hardware where gdb is running too.
I'm not talking about debugging the kernel, only simple applications!
I thing about using the LAN interface for both GDB's... Using someone
such a environment successfully here ?!

--
Raphael Bossek <raphael.bossek@solutions4linux.de> [ICQ #40047651]

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Re: Debug PowerPC application with GDB over network on a i386

[Graham Stoney]

Raphael Bossek writes:
> is it possible to use a graphical GDB frontend, e.g. DDD, on a i386 and
> debug application running on the PowerPC hardware where gdb is running too.
> I'm not talking about debugging the kernel, only simple applications!
> I thing about using the LAN interface for both GDB's... Using someone
> such a environment successfully here ?!

Yes, you run gdbserver on the embedded system. It worked fine for me under
gdb-4.18. I haven't had the need to try it again under gdb-5.0. You can get
the precompiled gdbserver from:
    ftp://ftp.ppc.kernel.org/pub/linuxppc/embedded/gdbserver.tgz

Regards,
Graham
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Principal Hardware/Software Engineer
Canon Information Systems Research Australia
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