Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:05:43 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb instead of adb Message-ID: <378E3F17.717FBF6C@softweyr.com> References: <199907150545.WAA00453@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > Is the reason why adb hasn't been ported to freebsd because the source is
> > proprietary?
>
> You make no sense.
>
> > If gdb should suffice for my debugging needs, how can a breakpoint be set
> > at a particular interrupt, or even at any interrupt? The break command
> > only seems to accept functions, offsets, linenumbers and addresses...
> > I'm all out of ideas and the gdb info file isn't helping.
>
> You make little more sense, unless you are talking about using
> gdb-remote on a running kernel, in which case you should know that
> interrupts are vectored through functions, and thus the entire issue is
> moot.
>
> Note also that debugging through interrupt handlers can be problematic
> on PC hardware.
Logic analyzers and/or ICEs are your friends here. Expensive friends.
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