Still problems with ELF files

[Joel Sherrill]

Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> 
> Hello Yan,
> 
> some debuggers have problems, because the various
> RTEMS files are compiled from different base
> directories. So the path to the sources are not
> so easy to find for most debuggers. Do you see
> symbol information in SDS? The maybe you should
> teach SDS manually where the corresponding source
> files are located (I don't know SDS, so I can't
> tell you which commands to use there...)

I sometimes find myself doing this when debugging
user's applications when only handed an exe.  I
forceable point gdb to find the source.

An alternative is to copy all the RTEMS source in
your build to a directory and point SDS to it.

> bye,
>         Thomas.
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was told that output files compiled with the 'ppcn_60x' BSP are in ELF
> > format.
> >
> > Using SDS SingleStep, I tried to change the GCC option '-g' with '-gdwarf' ,
> > '-gdwarf+' , '-gdwarf-2' , '-gstabs' , '-gstabs+'
> > But I still don't have any source code in the SDS debugger (I tested SDS
> > with other not RTEMS ELF files and SDS works).
> >
> > Do you know if the output files normally ended with a EXE extension, are in
> > fact really in ELF format ?
> > Do you have any suggestions ?
> >
> > Thank you !
> > Yan
> 
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