Improving debugging (gdb) support
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
Fri May 24 15:23:43 CDT 2002
Eric Pouech <eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr> writes:
> For pointer deref, one quick solution is to add one command to gdb which
> converts a segmented pointer into a linear address. Then this linear
> address can be used in any gdb command (it'll much more harder to
> add segmented pointers support though out every expression)
This would be pretty painful to use; and you'll need more than that to
be able to step through code and see what you are doing. This is a big
limitation of gdb, and it's the main reason we wrote the wine debugger
in the first place.
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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
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