README for gdb-6.3 release
- Updated 8, November, 2004 by Andrew Cagney
+ Updated 20, November, 2006
This is GDB, the GNU source-level debugger.
GDB requires an ISO C (ANSI C) compiler. If you do not have an ISO
C compiler for your system, you may be able to download and install
the GNU CC compiler. It is available via anonymous FTP from the
-directory `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc'.
+directory `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc'. GDB also requires an ISO
+C standard library. The GDB remote server, gdbserver, builds with some
+non-ISO standard libraries - e.g. for Windows CE.
GDB uses Expat, an XML parsing library, to implement some target-specific
features. Expat will be linked in if it is available at build time, or
allows remote debugging for Unix applications. gdbserver is only
supported for some native configurations, including Sun 3, Sun 4, and
Linux.
+The file gdb/gdbserver/README includes further notes on gdbserver; in
+particular, it explains how to build gdbserver for cross-debugging
+(where gdbserver runs on the target machine, which is of a different
+architecture than the host machine running GDB).
There are a number of remote interfaces for talking to existing ROM
monitors and other hardware:
- remote-e7000.c Renesas E7000 ICE
- remote-est.c EST emulator
- remote-hms.c Renesas Micro Systems H8/300 monitor
remote-mips.c MIPS remote debugging protocol
remote-sds.c PowerPC SDS monitor
remote-sim.c Generalized simulator protocol
- remote-st.c Tandem ST-2000 monitor
- remote-vx.c VxWorks realtime kernel
-
- Remote-vx.c and the vx-share subdirectory contain a remote
-interface for the VxWorks realtime kernel, which communicates over TCP
-using the Sun RPC library. This would be a useful starting point for
-other remote- via-ethernet back ends.
Reporting Bugs in GDB
projects / binutils-gdb.git / blobdiff