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Re: Re: eCos with non-GNU compiler
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: eCos with non-GNU compiler
- From: Greg Shubin <gshubin at sonic dot net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:46:47 -0700
- CC: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <F12384A3C489D411944100B0D07C673A21D1@NS1-2> <39C24A2B.DFB667F7@wireless-networks.com>
Cedric Berger wrote:
> James Dabbs wrote:
>
> > >But don't bother porting GDB and it's related stubs, MULTI is far,
> > >far better as a debugging environment.
> >
> > So would this require splicing the Green Hills debugger into eCos?
>
> If your uC has a JTAG interface, just use the $100 wiggler JTAG - parallel
> port interface and you're done.
> For non-JTAG processors, I don't know, but in a sense a RTOS is nothing
> more than any other program and could probably be debugged with whatever
> mechanism is available with MULTI.
Except most other programs don't muck with the stack pointer and do context
switching. I don't know anything about MULTI, but at least GDB/Insight support
thread debugging.