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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 82ee1d6..17245b2 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-05-02 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> + + * README: Use consistent `GDB' and `GDBserver' spellings. + 2010-05-02 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> * cli/cli-dump.h (parse_and_eval_with_error): Remove the declaration. @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ files, the BFD ("binary file description") library, the readline library, and other libraries all have directories of their own underneath the gdb-6.3 directory. The idea is that a variety of GNU tools can share a common copy of these things. Be aware of variation -over time--for example don't try to build gdb with a copy of bfd from -a release other than the gdb release (such as a binutils release), +over time--for example don't try to build GDB with a copy of bfd from +a release other than the GDB release (such as a binutils release), especially if the releases are more than a few weeks apart. Configuration scripts and makefiles exist to cruise up and down this directory tree and automatically build all the pieces in the right @@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ argument, e.g., `./configure sun4' or `./configure decstation'. /berman/migchain/source/gdb-6.3/configure # RIGHT /berman/migchain/source/gdb-6.3/gdb/configure # WRONG - The gdb package contains several subdirectories, such as 'gdb', + The GDB package contains several subdirectories, such as 'gdb', 'bfd', and 'readline'. If your 'configure' line ends in 'gdb-6.3/gdb/configure', then you are configuring only the gdb -subdirectory, not the whole gdb package. This leads to build errors +subdirectory, not the whole GDB package. This leads to build errors such as: make: *** No rule to make target `../bfd/bfd.h', needed by `gdb.o'. Stop. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Bugs' section below; there are a few known problems. C compiler for your system, you may be able to download and install the GNU CC compiler. It is available via anonymous FTP from the directory `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc'. GDB also requires an ISO -C standard library. The GDB remote server, gdbserver, builds with some +C standard library. The GDB remote server, GDBserver, builds with some non-ISO standard libraries - e.g. for Windows CE. GDB uses Expat, an XML parsing library, to implement some target-specific @@ -545,12 +545,12 @@ standalone on an m68k, i386, or SPARC cpu and communicate properly with the remote.c stub over a serial line. The directory gdb/gdbserver/ contains `gdbserver', a program that -allows remote debugging for Unix applications. gdbserver is only +allows remote debugging for Unix applications. GDBserver is only supported for some native configurations, including Sun 3, Sun 4, and Linux. -The file gdb/gdbserver/README includes further notes on gdbserver; in -particular, it explains how to build gdbserver for cross-debugging -(where gdbserver runs on the target machine, which is of a different +The file gdb/gdbserver/README includes further notes on GDBserver; in +particular, it explains how to build GDBserver for cross-debugging +(where GDBserver runs on the target machine, which is of a different architecture than the host machine running GDB). There are a number of remote interfaces for talking to existing ROM diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog index a1f4798..3f0b0fb 100644 --- a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2010-05-02 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> + * README: Use consistent `GDB' and `GDBserver' spellings. + +2010-05-02 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> + * linux-low.c (linux_kill_one_lwp): Assume the lwp is stopped. (linux_kill): Stop all lwps here. Don't delete the main lwp here. (linux_detach_one_lwp): Assume the lwp is stopped. diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/README b/gdb/gdbserver/README index 9394198..6debbd8 100644 --- a/gdb/gdbserver/README +++ b/gdb/gdbserver/README @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ For example, using a serial port, you might say: target> gdbserver /dev/com1 emacs foo.txt -This tells gdbserver to debug emacs with an argument of foo.txt, and to -communicate with GDB via /dev/com1. Gdbserver now waits patiently for the +This tells GDBserver to debug emacs with an argument of foo.txt, and to +communicate with GDB via /dev/com1. GDBserver now waits patiently for the host GDB to communicate with it. To use a TCP connection, you could say: @@ -43,16 +43,16 @@ that we are expecting to see a TCP connection from `host' to local TCP port want for the port number as long as it does not conflict with any existing TCP ports on the target system. This same port number must be used in the host GDBs `target remote' command, which will be described shortly. Note that if -you chose a port number that conflicts with another service, gdbserver will +you chose a port number that conflicts with another service, GDBserver will print an error message and exit. -On some targets, gdbserver can also attach to running programs. This is +On some targets, GDBserver can also attach to running programs. This is accomplished via the --attach argument. The syntax is: target> gdbserver --attach COMM PID PID is the process ID of a currently running process. It isn't necessary -to point gdbserver at a binary for the running process. +to point GDBserver at a binary for the running process. Usage (host side): @@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ communicates with the server via serial line /dev/ttyb, and: (gdb) target remote the-target:2345 communicates via a TCP connection to port 2345 on host `the-target', where -you previously started up gdbserver with the same port number. Note that for -TCP connections, you must start up gdbserver prior to using the `target remote' +you previously started up GDBserver with the same port number. Note that for +TCP connections, you must start up GDBserver prior to using the `target remote' command, otherwise you may get an error that looks something like `Connection refused'. -Building gdbserver: +Building GDBserver: The supported targets as of November 2006 are: arm-*-linux* @@ -99,16 +99,16 @@ The supported targets as of November 2006 are: x86_64-*-linux* xscale*-*-linux* -Configuring gdbserver you should specify the same machine for host and -target (which are the machine that gdbserver is going to run on. This -is not the same as the machine that gdb is going to run on; building -gdbserver automatically as part of building a whole tree of tools does +Configuring GDBserver you should specify the same machine for host and +target (which are the machine that GDBserver is going to run on. This +is not the same as the machine that GDB is going to run on; building +GDBserver automatically as part of building a whole tree of tools does not currently work if cross-compilation is involved (we don't get the right CC in the Makefile, to start with)). -Building gdbserver for your target is very straightforward. If you build -GDB natively on a target which gdbserver supports, it will be built -automatically when you build GDB. You can also build just gdbserver: +Building GDBserver for your target is very straightforward. If you build +GDB natively on a target which GDBserver supports, it will be built +automatically when you build GDB. You can also build just GDBserver: % mkdir obj % cd obj @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ automatically when you build GDB. You can also build just gdbserver: % make If you prefer to cross-compile to your target, then you can also build -gdbserver that way. In a Bourne shell, for example: +GDBserver that way. In a Bourne shell, for example: % export CC=your-cross-compiler % path-to-gdbserver-sources/configure your-target-name @@ -124,28 +124,28 @@ gdbserver that way. In a Bourne shell, for example: Using GDBreplay: -A special hacked down version of gdbserver can be used to replay remote -debug log files created by gdb. Before using the gdb "target" command to +A special hacked down version of GDBserver can be used to replay remote +debug log files created by GDB. Before using the GDB "target" command to initiate a remote debug session, use "set remotelogfile <filename>" to tell -gdb that you want to make a recording of the serial or tcp session. Note -that when replaying the session, gdb communicates with gdbreplay via tcp, +GDB that you want to make a recording of the serial or tcp session. Note +that when replaying the session, GDB communicates with GDBreplay via tcp, regardless of whether the original session was via a serial link or tcp. -Once you are done with the remote debug session, start gdbreplay and -tell it the name of the log file and the host and port number that gdb -should connect to (typically the same as the host running gdb): +Once you are done with the remote debug session, start GDBreplay and +tell it the name of the log file and the host and port number that GDB +should connect to (typically the same as the host running GDB): $ gdbreplay logfile host:port -Then start gdb (preferably in a different screen or window) and use the -"target" command to connect to gdbreplay: +Then start GDB (preferably in a different screen or window) and use the +"target" command to connect to GDBreplay: (gdb) target remote host:port -Repeat the same sequence of user commands to gdb that you gave in the -original debug session. Gdb should not be able to tell that it is talking -to gdbreplay rather than a real target, all other things being equal. Note -that gdbreplay echos the command lines to stderr, as well as the contents of -the packets it sends and receives. The last command echoed by gdbreplay is -the next command that needs to be typed to gdb to continue the session in +Repeat the same sequence of user commands to GDB that you gave in the +original debug session. GDB should not be able to tell that it is talking +to GDBreplay rather than a real target, all other things being equal. Note +that GDBreplay echos the command lines to stderr, as well as the contents of +the packets it sends and receives. The last command echoed by GDBreplay is +the next command that needs to be typed to GDB to continue the session in sync with the original session. |