Grief with Cygwin-hosted GDB

[Chris Johns]

Phil Torre wrote:
> 
> At this point, if I examine memory on the target, every DRAM
> address seems to contain the same value as the address.  No
> surprise, then, that GDB hangs if I do step or nexti.  Pressing
> ctrl-c to unhang GDB makes it blow core.
> 
> Is anyone making GDB/Cygwin work with the Wiggler?  Any hints
> would be welcome!
> 

I do not use PowerPC's or the Wiggler pods, but with the Coldfire and
68360 you typically need to run a GDB init script (.gdbinit) to
initialise the DRAM controller to enable access to the DRAM and insure
refreshing happens.

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 Chris Johns, mailto:cjohns at cybertec.com.au mailto:ccj at acm.org