Re: Can't use GDB to debug gnumach

[Samuel Thibault]

Karim Allah Ahmed, le Mon 12 Apr 2010 13:45:49 +0200, a écrit :
> >(gdb) break i386at_init
> >Breakpoint 2 at 0x100790: file ../i386/i386at/model_dep.c, line 322.
> >(gdb) continue
> >Continuing.
> 
> (here the gnumach simply restarts giving me back the boot loader , as if it
> didn't even breaks at the second break point .. and continue simply blocks )

IIRC, gdb gets confused because it mixes virtual and linear addresses,
which are not the same in Mach.

> [Note , i'm debugging gnumach because it crashes and reboots after doing some
> modifications in the initialization phase .. and kdb isn't yet initialized]x

For such debugging, I usually use the "write text at 0xb8000 then
while(1);" hack :)

Samuel