Re: [MiNT] gdb crashes

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 20:16 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Alan Hourihane a écrit :
> > It's o.k. found it. It crashes when using stripped binaries.
> 
> Fine, finally it's a small bug, it will probably be easy to fix it.

Great.

> By the way, I've been working hard for a week to understand deeply the 
> binutils, I'm quite comfortable with it now 8-)
> 
> Since the BFD library is shared between the binutils and gdb, this part 
> should be ok for future ports of gdb. gdb 7.0 has been released 
> recently, I didn't look at the sources yet.
> 
> However gdb is more complex than the binutils, because it has to 
> interact with the target OS (while the binutils 'simply' works on binary 
> files). I lack some knowledge, especially on the MiNT OS calls.
> 
> I plan to release an improved patch for the binutils soon, maybe I will 
> work on gdb after that.

Fantastic.

Alan.