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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:10:29 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing gdb (3.0) to debug AOUT
Message-ID:  <19990101171029.A63618@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19990101161337.M41841@freebie.lemis.com>
References:  <19990101111642.V39598@freebie.lemis.com> <199901010533.AAA24192@spoon.beta.com> <19990101161337.M41841@freebie.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Friday,  1 January 1999 at  0:33:32 -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
>
> > 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?

any of the normal methods should work:

$ gdb -aout ... other stuff ...
$ OBJFORMAT=aout gdb ... other stuff ...

seems to work. There are two gdbs on -current as standard

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  761856 Oct 20 21:15 /usr/libexec/aout/gdb
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  736664 Dec 30 23:31 /usr/libexec/elf/gdb

and the "wrapper" which decides on the correct object format:
108545 -r-xr-xr-x  14 root  wheel  47760 Dec 30 23:35 /usr/bin/gdb
108545 -r-xr-xr-x  14 root  wheel  47760 Dec 30 23:35 /usr/bin/objformat

Not sure if this is the same in -release though.

Or have I misunderstood something?

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Ben Smithurst
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