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From: Toby Sargeant <toby@angst.forefront.com.au>
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Subject: Re: How do I use GDB ?
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 11:25:42 +1000
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Alexander Jakes wrote:
> 
> I have tried working through the GDB documentation and still cannot get it
> to work.
> I connect using com3 and have DTLH3000 set accordingly, but when I type
> target hss com3 I get the messages:
> 
> Remote debugging using com3
> hss_putpkt: write failed: Unknown error 101.
> 
I've got gdb to work fine under linux. The differences shouldn't be all 
that big. I copied the .gdbinit file straight from the psx cd, and that
created a macro called start-remote-debugging. all i do is:

~> psxfer exename
~> gdb exename
(gdb) start-remote-debugging

psxfer starts the remote debugger, so I'd imagine that all you'd need
to do is use siocons to do the same thing (after transferring the
executable), port psxfer to dos, or write another version of it. I also
have real problems with hss at 115.2K, because it doesn't do checksums,
and so I get frequent corruption. 57.6 is as fast as I can drive it. 

<controversial>
To be very blunt about it, I found both the gnu tools under dos, and
the codewarrior tools under win95/NT to be either unusable, or a load
of rubbish, and since building my own environment for linux, I
haven't looked back.  The only thing I lack now is a modeller, and 
since I'm much more interested in realtime generation of 3d objects, 
that's not an important issue for me.
</controversial>

Toby

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