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 Message-ID: <19990101161337.M41841@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901010533.AAA24192@spoon.beta.com>; from Brian J. McGovern on Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 12:33:32AM -0500 References: <19990101111642.V39598@freebie.lemis.com> <199901010533.AAA24192@spoon.beta.com>
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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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