Re: Using DDD with a cross-gdb

[Tim Combs]

Try starting up ddd with the --trace option.  That will send to stderr the
commands DDD is sending to gdb.  That will narrow down your problem.

Tim
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:16:34PM +0200, David Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am doing some developement using an embedded controller card based around
> the 68332 processor.  This is connected to a PC using a Motorola
> ICD-compatible cable to the BDM interface.  I have a cross-gdb executable,
> which works fine as a command-line gdb for debugging, and I am now trying to
> get DDD to work as a graphical interface to gdb.
> 
> I can get DDD to start up with --debugger m68k-bdm-elf-gdb.  Sometimes I can
> get it to attach to the target (using "target bdm /dev/bdmicd0" from the gdb
> prompt within DDD), but very soon after starting to set up the 68332 using
> gdb commands (such as "set $sfc", or commands to write to the 68332's
> memory-mapped registers), DDD complains that the child gdb has had a
> segmentation fault.  It varies at what stage this error comes - sometimes it
> is when attaching to the target, sometimes I can do several of the setup
> commands before the fault occurs and DDD restarts gdb.
> 
> I know my gdb is working properly, since it works fine as a command-line
> debugger.  I have also used GVD with the same gdb as a child process - as
> far as I understand it, DDD and GVD work in the same way.  GVD works
> perfectly with gdb - I am only really looking at DDD as an alternative so
> that I have a choice of front-ends.
> 
> My system is Linux Mandrake 8.0, a PIII-800, 256k Ram, with DDD-3.3.1 build
> from source (with plain ./configure && make && make install), and gdb-5.0
> patched with the bdm patches and configured for m68k cross-debugging.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas what is going wrong, or could describe any extra
> information that they need from me, I would be most grateful for the help.
> As I said, GVD is working fine, so I feel there must be something in the DDD
> setup that is not working.
> 
> 
> David Brown
> System Developer
> WestControl a.s
> Norway
> 
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