Who is RobertF?

[Daron Chabot]

On 20-Nov-08, at 4:24 AM, Robert Fu wrote:

> Hi Jeol,
>
> It's me. Last night I uploaded screen shots while writing/previewing
> "RTEMS Eclipse Plug-In" wiki page. Although some files were uploaded,
> error page (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error or Could not create  
> directory)
> came up for almost every uploading, and later I could not access
> the wiki site.
>
> I developed an Eclipse plug-in for RTEMS (http://www.rtems.com/wiki/ 
> index.php/RTEMS_Eclipse_Plug-in).
> Please take a look. I'm new to RTEMS, and also new to Eclipse plug-in
> development. This is the 1st plug-in that I  ever developed. So please
> be patient if you encounter problems while using it.

Well done! Thanks for your contribution.

However, as Sebastian pointed out the plugin is not accessible on the  
FTP site. I'd really like to check out your work.

>
>
> While working on the GDB part of the plug-in, I initially used -- 
> enable-rdbg in
> configure. Later I found --enable-rtems-debug was mentioned in a  
> wiki page.
> When I used both --enable-rdbg and --enable-rtems-debug in  
> configure, during startup
> my application hang at "_HAssert(_Heap_Is_prev_used 
> ( next_block ));" in
> cpukit\score\src\heapsizeofuserarea.c. I went back to use --enable- 
> rdbg. So my
> question is: which configure option should be used to enable remote  
> debugging?

Option --enable-rdbg is the one to use to enable remote debugging.

Option --enable-rtems-debug activates some instrumentation within  
RTEMS itself (malloc statistics at least...).

I use both switches simultaneously and have not seen the problem you  
reported. What version of RTEMS are you using ??


-- dc