Guillem, On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 00:31, Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 02:08:10 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 18:04, Martín Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've tried adding the --enable-debugger in the debian/rules file, with >> > no success; I still have to research why. >> >> I found why, it's incompatible with the gdb stub. Also I had to tweak >> the source to compile under g++ 4, with an quick and dirty patch >> (configure.in should be modified, for example). But you get the idea >> to properly do it later :-) > > Why isn't the gdb support enough?
It's not the same thing. Most things are better done with gdb, but some others are much more convenient in the native debugger. Some of them (looking at some internal state of the CPU, getting exact state after a triple fauilt) are only possible from the latter. When working on writing a boot loader and a minimal operating system, I used the internal debugger a lot. -- Martín Ferrari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
