From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Oct 12 14:39:57 2009 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] gdb crashes From: Alan Hourihane To: Vincent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rivi=E8re?= Cc: mint In-Reply-To: <4AD37269.8000201@freesbee.fr> References: <1255365583.12403.5.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <1255366390.12403.6.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <4AD37269.8000201@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:38:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1255372721.12403.8.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n9CIduXi014148 On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 20:16 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote: > Alan Hourihane a écrit : > > It's o.k. found it. It crashes when using stripped binaries. > > Fine, finally it's a small bug, it will probably be easy to fix it. Great. > By the way, I've been working hard for a week to understand deeply the > binutils, I'm quite comfortable with it now 8-) > > Since the BFD library is shared between the binutils and gdb, this part > should be ok for future ports of gdb. gdb 7.0 has been released > recently, I didn't look at the sources yet. > > However gdb is more complex than the binutils, because it has to > interact with the target OS (while the binutils 'simply' works on binary > files). I lack some knowledge, especially on the MiNT OS calls. > > I plan to release an improved patch for the binutils soon, maybe I will > work on gdb after that. Fantastic. Alan.