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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:10:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cross-debugging support in QEMU using GDB
From: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Boyapati, Anitha" <Anitha.Boyapati@atmel.com>

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
[...]
>> More on (2): if there is no OS, then I think a small application like
>> bootloader should probably be present to launch the cross-compiled
>> executable on to Qemu. Any further suggestions on how to make (2) possib=
le?
>> =A0All the previous threads in developer mail archives dealt with debugg=
ing
>> linux image in some form or the other.
>
> Qemu does that job, interpreting the ELF headers. I'm not sure where the
> linking is done though, so maybe better read the code there :-).

For dynamically linked programs, the simulated ld.so will be run so you
have no control over what's going on.


Laurent