Re: [PLUG] gdb tip you should know

2019-10-18 Thread Russell Senior
Fwiw, there is a project coming that looks pretty cool, that addresses a similar problem in a non-gdb context, and that is something called GNU poke[1]. It is a tool for reading and modifying binary files in a symbol fashion. It does require writing definitions (called "pickles") of the binary

Re: [PLUG] gdb tip you should know

2019-10-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: There are some other useful tips here. This particular tip is #5 in the article. galen, Thanks for the detailed explanation and pointer to that web page. Carpe weekend, Rich

[PLUG] gdb tip you should know

2019-10-18 Thread Galen Seitz
I occasionally have the need to use gdb for debugging, but not often enough to be a gdb expert. Typically this debugging is on embedded systems that have microcontrollers with many peripherals that need to be controlled, such as AVR or Cortex M devices. The peripheral register addresses and