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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.hp
- Subject: HP debug info and the FSF (was: Attaching gdb to a running process on an HP)
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:50:49
- Organization: CenterLine Software R&D
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- In-reply-to: huttar@hp750.itg.ti.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:44:54 GMT
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- huttar@hp750.itg.ti.com (Lars Huttar) writes:
-
- > Hamish.Macdonald@bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald) writes:
-
- > > 1) Get gcc to understand and insert HPUX debugging information into
- > > the object files it creates. Also get gdb to understand and
- > > retrieve HPUX debugging information from the executable. To my
- > > knowledge, no-one has done this for a the 680x0 HP machines. The
- > > folks at UUtah may have done this for the PA HP machines.
-
- > Yes, you can get a modified gcc-2.3.3.u3 for PA HP's from
- > jaugar.utah.edu:/dist.
- > I just downloaded hpuxbin.tar.Z, which contained the executables
- > for gcc, gdb, etc. that worked (with symbolic debugging & all)
- > without modification.
-
- I thought that HP was refusing to "free" its debugger symbol table
- format (specifically the header file that defines all of the debugger
- symbol data structures). That would mean no Gnu product can read or
- write HP debug info, because the FSF won't use code that isn't free,
- and because HP won't let their debug info format be given away under
- the FSF Copyleft. This seems contrary to what Lars writes above.
-
- Which is it: Do gcc and gdb understand HP debug info or don't they?
-
- I too have heard about work at the University of Utah to teach gcc/gdb
- about HP debug info, but I have also heard that HP has effectively
- killed that work by refusing to free the necessary header file.
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