Improving debugging (gdb) support

[Shachar Shemesh]

Michael Cardenas wrote:

>On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:28:38AM +0100, Michael Wetherell wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 22 May 2002 10:39 am, Tijs van Bakel wrote:
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>>>Either I could work on winedbg to match
>>>gdb's features, or I could try to make gdb understand Wine better.
>>>Given the amount of useful frontends for gdb, it seems wiser to go for
>>>the second option. 
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>>gdb can debug Windows programs compiled with Cygwin or mingw if you compile 
>>gdb with support for PE executables (I expect you know that already).
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>>More details:
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=6xUt8.14322%24sL6.2032145%40news11-gui.server.ntli.net
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>>I wouldn't mind knowing what people think of the technique. I was wondering 
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>This was discussed at wineconf, well, getting gdb to work with wine was
>discussed at wineconf because of the huge value in having a graphical
>front end for debugging. 
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>Ont major problem is that gdb doesn't understand wine's handling of
>windows threads, even if it does understand the windows pe format. 
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>Ulrich Weigand gave a great presentation where he talked about how the
>debugger is currently implemented, and things that would need to be done
>to have more support from gdb. 
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>Ulrich, you want to post your presentation here?
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What about writing a backend support for DDD and winedbg?