RE: Debugger OS-awareness

["Janez Ulcakar" <janezu at asystelectronic dot si>]

Thanks so far. I think we'll be able to delve in next month.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Larmour [mailto:jifl at eCosCentric dot com]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 17:20
To: Janez Ulcakar
Cc: Andrew Lunn; ecos-maintainers at sources dot redhat dot com
Subject: Re: Debugger OS-awareness


Janez Ulcakar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You're correct in your assumptions. We've encountered that 'special
function
> spawned by the ICE' approach before, and I think it's better suited for an
> ICE.
>
> a) Does eCos already provide such a function (how's it called, where does
it
> take it's params from, and where do we read the results from and what
> format)

It wasn't made generic but there's one that was *intended* to be made
generic in the hal/v85x ports. Search for CYGDBG_HAL_V850_ICE, and in
particular look at hal/v85x/v850/current/src/v850_ice.cxx.

There's also one for the ARM at hal/arm/arch/current/src/arm_stub.c but
that isn't quite as good as it requires stubs to be included in
applications.

> b) should a debugger (we) provide a C source that the user includes in his
> build

Ideally such support should be built into the eCos port! If it's for an
existing target, contributing it back to the community would be the best
thing for users. Of course the support would want to be default off for
users who don't need it.

Jifl
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