Re: Plans for prc-tools-2.2 (and gdb) ?

[Ton v. O. <v-o...@ci...>]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, John Marshall wrote:

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> > - Making gdb work with PalmOS5 simulator.
> > - Generate SIGSTOP for the PilotMain breakpoint also when
> >   debugging on a real device.
> > - Break at first executable line of PilotMain, instead of
> >   in the middle of the function prologue (PilotMain+4).
> >   (will be in the multisegment patch update MsegGdb2.1-3)
> >
> > If you agree, I can submit those as a separate patch
> > for remote-palmos.c against prc-tools-2.1.
>
> Patches welcome.  Er, I thought it already did all of those first three,
> but I guess that just shows how much I care about debugging and the old
> remote-palmos.c... :-)
>
> Against current CVS please, not that remote-palmos.c has changed much
> (if at all) since 2.1.

Sorry John, you did not do those three (yet).
As far as I can tell from cvs, the last thing you did was the SIGSTOP
mod for PilotMain, which works OK in POSE, but not on the PalmOS5 Sim and
on a real device.
Do you want a patch against gdb-5.0.palmos.diff or against
remote-palmos.c ?
I'll try to produce one during the weekend.

I also started looking at moving to gdb 5.2.1. This could be interesting,
because there is integrated support for the TUI (Text User Interface).
In 5.0 the TUI support is flaky. TUI gives you a curses based window
interface, something like a 'poor mans ddd'. Seeing the sourcefile
context while debugging, even in a text based terminal, is a big gain.
Any interest (or John do you beat me to it :-) ?)

Ton