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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GDB Port?
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- References: <1993Jan9.185850.19987@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 15:35:53 EST
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- In article <1993Jan9.185850.19987@cs.tu-berlin.de> bokowski@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Boris Bokowski) writes:
- > I read in the gcc-2.3.3 - diff files that there is no GDB port for
- > the amiga. But why?
-
- Because there is no BFD port for the Amiga.
-
- (gdb requires two primary things from AmigaOS: a way to break apart the object
- files [BFD] and a way to examine a loaded object [ptrace()]. Markus has
- committed to getting ptrace() done *very* quickly as soon as someone does a
- BFD port.)
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
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