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History

Gary Jennejohn b7eed0a0c1 changes to gdb to: 1) add Garrett Wollman's trap frame resolving mods 2) make the `proc' command (kernel debugging) really work 3) allow use of a pid with the `proc' command (previously you had to provide the address of the proc structure) Unfortunately, the `proc' command won't work while doing remote debugging.		1996-10-29 21:52:21 +00:00
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bfd	Really eliminated includes of the "temporary" backwards compatibility	1996-09-24 08:43:04 +00:00
doc	recording cvs-1.6 file death	1995-12-30 19:02:48 +00:00
gdb	changes to gdb to:	1996-10-29 21:52:21 +00:00
libiberty	Remove this version, it now comes from libc.	1996-05-27 11:02:40 +00:00
mmalloc	Remove trailing whitespace.	1995-05-30 05:05:38 +00:00
COPYING	Two files I "lost" the first time.	1994-06-10 15:57:46 +00:00
COPYING.LIB	GDB-4.12 from ports with support for shlibs but not the kernel.	1994-06-10 13:42:18 +00:00
Makefile	doc added	1995-01-11 16:40:08 +00:00
README.FreeBSD	Good grammar and good taste, from Gary Jennejohn.	1995-01-12 11:47:02 +00:00
VERSION	Hurrah! Let the champagne flow, the olive oil barrel be opened and	1994-12-30 23:27:33 +00:00

README.FreeBSD

This is a greatly pared down version of GDB-4.13 for FreeBSD 2.0. It
also has support for kernel debugging a la the dearly beloved kgdb.
Kernel debugging is enabled either using the -k flag or by linking gdb
to kgdb and invoking it as kgdb. Linking is left up to the discretion
of the user.

The kernel debugging needs testing, I didn't have any useful crash dumps
available. The new gdb produced the same output as the old kgdb with
what I had available for testing, though. 

There's rudimentary support for attaching to a running process and
debugging (attach/detach commands in gdb). This works best if the
program being debugged was compiled with -g, of course.

Note that a plain vanilla gdb-4.13 without kernal debugging or
attach/detach support can be made by removing the
	#define ATTACH_DETACH
	#define KERNEL_DEBUG
lines from gdb/nm.h.

gj@freebsd.org