Re: [GSoC2013] question about "improve the GDB port for GNU Hurd"
陆岳 <[email protected]>
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Thank you for providing the requested information. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Thomas Schwinge <[email protected]> wrote: > You can clone hurd/web.git repository from Savannah, and check out the > toolchain/logs/master branch (which I have as a Git submodule on > toolchain/logs), and compare the > gdb/coulomb.SCHWINGE/test/gdb/testsuite/gdb.*/*.sum files with those you > got. I will do the compare after I have finished the application. > Which are the handful of files in the GDB sources that are relevant > (only) for the native GNU Hurd support? To my knowledge now, there are at least gnu-nat.c, i386gnu-tdep.c, gnu-nat.h and i386gnu-nat.c relating with GNU Hurd support. > Yes, this shows you actually did look at the sources, trying to figure > out how it works, and what you describe is correct in principle. > (Leaving out many details, of course.) As you're still new to the Hurd's > architecture, based on Mach's RPC system, it is no wonder that the > message transport is still not completely clear to you -- that will get > better with time, as you learn more about it. yeah, I will continue to learn more about GNU Hurd. By the way, Last night I have found a useful document in this ftp(ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/doc/unpublished/exception.doc) which explained how the GDB take advantage of Mach's exception facility. > No, please use the knowledge you got by now to write your application, > and send it in, which needs to happen tomorrow. Then, in the next > week(s), we can still continue refining it, and you could, for example, > prepare and send a first patch for GDB for the issue that you reported on > IRC: so that the configure process stops with an error if targeting GNU > Hurd and the MIG tool was not found. (gdb/configure.ac is the file you > need to edit, and then regenerate gdb/configure.) I will write my application right now. And the patch is on the way, this afternoon I have already read some How-to about autoconf. Best Regards. -- Yue Lu (陆岳)