siegel@hc.DSPO.GOV (Josh Siegel) (11/05/87)
I heard a interesting rumor. Is it true that somebody is building the system configuation files for the encore to get the GNU stuff to run? We would really love to get a real debugger other then cdb... thanks much --Josh Siegel -- Josh Siegel (siegel@hc.dspo.gov) Friends don't let Friends eat Cherry Zingers
jb@cs.brown.EDU (Jim Bloom) (11/06/87)
I don't know where you heard the rumor, but it is true. A student here is working on getting gdb running. He is not trying to get a generic system configuration file though. The first problem getting gdb running is that Encore use COFF and not the Berkeley a.out format. They also have a different ptrace interface, didn't ways of accessing the registers in the child process and other problems. The goal here is not to get gdb running normally, but as a multiprocess debugger. Those extensions take extra time as well so I have no idea if or when we might be able to pass along a version to people. Jim