Re: /proc and debuggers

From: Rob Savoye <rob_at_nospam.org>
Date: Mon Nov 29 1993 - 15:40:43 PST

       From: Andrew Valencia <vandys@cisco.com>
       Subject: Re: /proc and debuggers

> >about what format it expects. Rob, could you please send out a bit
> >more info?
 
  I haven't played with this section of code, (I've been stuck writing
embedded support over serial lines :-) I'll see what I can dig up.

> a.out formats. The /proc server could synthesize such a thing, but
> at a loss of portability.

  It'd probably be easier to implement ptrace(). For most target environemnts
GDB only requires the ability to read/write memory and set/clear breakpoints.

        - rob -
Received on Mon Nov 29 15:55:50 1993

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