Re: Re: [ECOS] No RedBoot network after app start?

[Andre-John Mas <ajmas at sympatico dot ca>]

> 
> From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
> Date: 2006/07/06 Thu AM 06:42:02 EDT
> To: ajmas@bigfoot.com
> CC: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] No RedBoot network after app start?
> 
> Andre-John Mas wrote:
> > I am a little confused then (I am new at this). I was 
>  > under the impression that RedBoot needs to hang around,
>  > so GDB can do its work. I have also been told that RedBoot
>  > and the application needs separate IP addresses (supposedly
>  > to avoid stack confusion), for this reason.
> 
> All true, but RedBoot is passive at this point.  It only
> provides GDB services on demand (when you print or hit a
> breakpoint, etc)
> 

I see.

> > 
> > Our main issue is that we are unable to debug. We are using 
>  > Eclipse to establish the GDB session, over ethernt. The image
>  > gets uploaded by Eclipse, to port 9000 at the address of our card,
>  > and we then reach the main function (we have break at main set).
>  > At that point no more debugging is possible, which isn't very
>  > useful. What I mean is that we can't step or display anything
>  > further. At this point we just have to restart our card.
> 
> You get to the breakpoint at 'main' in your code?
> 
> Is your problem is that once you continue past this point, with
> no other breakpoints set, you can't get back into GDB?  Can you
> set other breakpoints, or single step?
> 

I get to the first 'break point' and at that point I can neither step or continue to the next break point. When we hit the 'break at main' point we can get registery info, but that's it.

Andre


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