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authorRoland Pesch <pesch@cygnus>1993-10-01 01:30:04 +0000
committerRoland Pesch <pesch@cygnus>1993-10-01 01:30:04 +0000
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Assorted small improvements, mostly from FSF editing pass (Melissa).
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@@ -68,14 +68,14 @@ For @sc{sparc} architectures.
@item m68k-stub.c
@kindex m68k-stub.c
-@kindex Motorola 680x0
-@kindex 680x0
+@cindex Motorola 680x0
+@cindex 680x0
For Motorola 680x0 architectures.
@item i386-stub.c
@kindex i386-stub.c
-@kindex Intel
-@kindex 386
+@cindex Intel
+@cindex 386
For Intel 386 and compatible architectures.
@end table
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ steps.
@enumerate
@item
Make sure you have the supporting low-level routines
-(@pxref{Bootstrapping}):
+(@pxref{Bootstrapping,,What you must do for the stub}):
@display
@code{getDebugChar}, @code{putDebugChar},
@code{flush_i_cache}, @code{memset}, @code{exceptionHandler}.
@@ -885,8 +885,8 @@ sequences will get you back to the @value{GDBN} command prompt:
@value{GDBN} enables developers to spawn and debug tasks running on networked
VxWorks targets from a Unix host. Already-running tasks spawned from
the VxWorks shell can also be debugged. @value{GDBN} uses code that runs on
-both the UNIX host and on the VxWorks target. The program
-@code{gdb} is installed and executed on the UNIX host. (It may be
+both the Unix host and on the VxWorks target. The program
+@code{gdb} is installed and executed on the Unix host. (It may be
installed with the name @code{vxgdb}, to distinguish it from a
@value{GDBN} for debugging programs on the host itself.)
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ VxWorks, see the manufacturer's manual.
Once you have included the RDB interface in your VxWorks system image
and set your Unix execution search path to find @value{GDBN}, you are ready
-to run @value{GDBN}. From your UNIX host, run @code{gdb} (or
+to run @value{GDBN}. From your Unix host, run @code{gdb} (or
@code{vxgdb}, depending on your installation).
@value{GDBN} comes up showing the prompt:
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ command again.
@cindex download to VxWorks
If you have connected to the VxWorks target and you want to debug an
object that has not yet been loaded, you can use the @value{GDBN}
-@code{load} command to download a file from UNIX to VxWorks
+@code{load} command to download a file from Unix to VxWorks
incrementally. The object file given as an argument to the @code{load}
command is actually opened twice: first by the VxWorks target in order
to download the code, then by @value{GDBN} in order to read the symbol
@@ -1204,11 +1204,11 @@ retransmit-timeout}. (These commands are @emph{only} available when
@cindex MIPS remote floating point
@cindex floating point, MIPS remote
If your target board does not support the MIPS floating point
-coprocessor, use the command @samp{set mipsfpu off} (you may wish to put
-this in your @value{GDBINIT} file). This will tell @value{GDBN} how to
-find the return value of functions which return floating point values,
-and tell it to call functions on the board without saving the floating
-point registers.
+coprocessor, you should use the command @samp{set mipsfpu off} (you may
+wish to put this in your @value{GDBINIT} file). This tells @value{GDBN}
+how to find the return value of functions which return floating point
+values. It also allows @value{GDBN} to avoid saving the floating point
+registers when calling functions on the board.
@end ifset
@ifset SIMS