Re: [MiNT] gdb & gcc 4.3.2

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Miro Kropacek wrote:
> is there anyone who uses gdb along with our newest gcc? I have quite a 
> problem to use it on regular base -- at first, it seems like gdb doesn't 
> like c99's mixed code with declarations. But when I removed all such 
> code I realized it's general problem with { } blocks -- everytime 
> debugger should enter some {} section (for(), if(), ...) it crashes at 
> some strange (low) address saying it can't place breakpoint there. As 
> soon as I replace $(CC) with /usr/bin/gcc (original gcc) it works...

Too bad...
If you can, please check if the problem is not actually in ld-2.18.

> That reminds me, Vincent, how are you doing with your work on the newest 
> gdb? ;)

Porting the new gdb 6.8 will require a big work (specific code for MiNT 
must be written). However, recompiling the old gdb 5.0 with the newest 
MiNTLib and bfd patch from binutils 2.18 would be easy and may fix 
everything ! I plan to do it (soon ?).

Notes about the new gdb 6.8: there is a full-screen text debugger named 
gdbtui. That would be cool for MiNT !
And gdb supports remote debugging via TCP/IP. I think it would be 
possible to run the programs in ARAnyM, with a graphical debugger like 
ddd running on Linux or Cygwin. I would love it !
Anyway, I'm not sure it is possible to do that, and if it is, it will 
require a big work...

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Vincent Rivière