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Re: gdb and gdbserver compatability
- To: ColinB <cbyh at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: gdb and gdbserver compatability
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:33:53 -0400
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20010730102115.14692.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com>
Just FYI, this list typically for the discussion of issues arrising
from the FSF's GDB. In the below you're refering to Cygnus
distributions of GDB.
> However we now need to run a more recent version of LynxOS on the local
> machine but have found that that there are so many changes to LynxOS
> that we can not compile the corresponding version of gdb/gdbserver
> (4.17-gnupro-98r2) source code on the old target machine. We could get
> Lynx involved to modify their gdb source code so that it would build on
> the older target, but this may not be necessary if it was possible to
> have a 4.17 gdb working correctly with a 4.16 gdbserver.
In theory, this will work. GDB tries to keep its self backward
compatible with remote stubs embedded in the field.
Andrew
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