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Re: Debugging with pROBE and Gdb


Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com> writes:

>    From: Bruno Vetel <bruno.vetel@magic.fr>
>    Date: 04 Mar 1999 15:44:42 +0100
> 
>    I work on an mpc860 board from EST. I need to have (by contract) pROBE
>    on my board and I want to develop on a PC using Linux using Gdb.
> 
>    Has anyone develop an interface between pROBE and Gdb ?
> 
> >From Stan's magical mystery archives...  I have no memory of why this
> wasn't incorporated into GDB, although there was probably no copyright
> assignment, which would have been a sticking point.
> 
> 								Stan
> 
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 94 10:39:02 EST
> From: srh@eng.tridom.com (Steve Harmon)
> To: rob@cygnus.com, droelke@spirit.aud.alcatel.com, shebs@cygnus.com,
>         mauricec@tplrd.tpl.oz.au, Heitmann@tu-harburg.d400.de,
>         dbruce@world.std.com
> Subject: Re: GNU debugger (gdb) and ISI's pROBE+ Rom Monitor
> 
> 
> 
>     I posted the following but I thought I'd go ahead and mail you copies
> since you asked....
> 
> 
> 
>     Since so many people have expressed an interest in a pROBE interface
> for GDB I thought it would be simpler to just post my code here.  The only
> non-pROBE command used by the interface is the '@' command that is implemented
> as a user command and is used to examine and deposit bytes.  David Littell
> (dlittell@sun004.cpdsc.com) suggested the use of the pROBE 'pm' command
> instead (see #ifdef USER_DEFINED_MEM_ACCESS).  While I'm certain that his
> suggestion will work OK for the 'write bytes' operation, I think that it
> will probably create time lags for the 'read bytes' operation due to the
> fact that the response line isn't <nl> terminated (thus an input timeout
> is needed). 
> 
> 
> 
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Hi

Many tanks for your answer that will be very usefull for me.


				Bruno