gdb -k no longer working properly.

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Jan 7 11:02:44 PST 2005


:On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:46:27PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     Joerg, at some point in the last month gdb -k stopped working properly.
:>     It can no longer find processes (the 'proc' command is unknown), and
:>     it can't seem to handle our stack frames properly either.  I had a bunch
:>     of hacks in the old gdb to deal with these issues that I think have
:>     to be ported.  What's the current state of gdb ?
:
:I'm working on proc. I'm not entirely sure what the problem with
:the stack frames is, but I'm investigating that too.
:
:Joerg
:
:> 
:> 						-Matt

    There are some weird fudge factors that have to be used here and there
    to get gdb to figure them out properly.  You should be able to figure
    it out from the commits I made to the old gdb but if you get stuck,
    pop me an email and I'll take a look at it.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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