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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 16:13:37 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Changing gdb (3.0) to debug AOUT
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On Friday,  1 January 1999 at  0:33:32 -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> The version with 3.0 complains that it can't understand the format of an
> a.out image. If you create a short C program, a la
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> void main(void)
>   {
>     printf("Hi!\n");
>   }
>
> and compile it a la:
>
> cc -aout -g -o foo foo.c
>
> Then go:
>
> gdb foo
>
> It will load gdb, then complain that the format is unrecognized....
>
> As a "work around", I recompiled a copy from my 2.2.6 machine with -static
> defined, and copied it over. It seems to work ok....

That's about the way to do it.  3.0 gdb doesn't currently support
a.out, but I believe somebody is working on it.

Have I missed a question in this message?

Greg
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