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- This is the alpha release of the gdb port to MIPS-based machines.
- Only the (little-endian) DECstation3100 has been tested.
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- Here I will try to list known problems:
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- Calling a function in the debugger (as in 'print f(x)') normally
- works correctly. One known exception is if you pass a structure
- argument whose sizeof > 4. Currently, gdb will align it on
- an 8-byte boundary, while the compiler while depend on
- the alignment needed by the fields. (Unfortunately, the
- distributed varargs.h and stdarg.h are inconsistent with
- mips' compiler!)
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- Fortran debugging could be made nicer, but a lot of that is a
- problem with the implementation-independent gdb.
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- Code in include files is handled poorly (missing line numbers).
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- Lots of testing is needed.
- E.g. is IN_SIGTRAMP (in infrun.c) correct?
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