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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:16:42 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changing gdb (3.0) to debug AOUT
Message-ID:  <19990101111642.V39598@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812311321.IAA03197@spoon.beta.com>; from Brian J. McGovern on Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 08:21:06AM -0500
References:  <199812311321.IAA03197@spoon.beta.com>

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On Thursday, 31 December 1998 at  8:21:06 -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> I've been running 3.0 for a bit, and I'm running in to a snag with a.out
> binaries (including being unable to remote-debug kernels). It appears that
> the gdb w/3.0 will debug ELF binaries just fine, but doesn't recognize the
> a.out format.
>
> I've mucked around in the code, but don't see where the target controls whether
> its an ELF or a.out target. Is it a function of which its compiled with? Can
> I get away just rebuilding it with -aout? If so, where is a good place to
> stick this flag?

IIRC, gdb should recognize the format automatically.  I'm sure it did
before I ever got involved with FreeBSD, but I haven't looked at the
code since.

Greg
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