Issue in blackfin toolchain

Rohan Kangralkar rohankangralkar at yahoo.com
Wed May 18 15:55:20 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Rohan Kangralkar <rohan.stays at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>wrote:
>
>> On 05/12/2011 04:41 PM, Rohan Kangralkar wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using the rtems blackfin tools to build and debug my board that
>>> contains analog devices BF527 processor.
>>>
>>> The issue i am facing is that I am not able to place breakpoints in some
>>> part of my c code. So the debugging is becoming difficult. GDB complains
>>>  "No line 291 in file" even though the file has more that 300 lines of code.
>>>
>>>
>>>  What's the name of the file?  There is a chance there are two
>> files with the same name in the executable and gdb is confused.
>> I have seen this before.
>
>
> The name of the file is tll_fpga.c. I looked for the file in my project and
> there are no files with duplicate file names.
>
>
>
>>
>>  I use the compiler, debugger provided by rtems4.11 for debugging my
>>> application.
>>>
>>> After some debugging and analysis of the mapping the line number in the
>>> elf to the C code in the file using objdump i find the following.
>>> 1.  executing the bfin-elf-objdump (  analog devices toolchain) on the
>>> elf the following error is thrown out
>>>
>>> BFD: Dwarf Error: mangled line number section.
>>>
>>> 2. but the objdump from rtems does not complain.
>>>
>>>  Are they built from the same source?  If not, then random
>> differences.
>
>
>
> They are built from the same source.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So
>>> How do i correct the issue in the rtems blackfin gdb?
>>> I also observe that analog devices have their own gdb-proxy but rtems
>>> does not provide gpd-proxy
>>> should the gdb-proxy also be included in the rtems bfin toolchain?
>>>
>>>  Would be good.  Yes.
>>
>
>
>
> I have some more information about the problem. To decouple it from the ADI
> toolchain, I compile my source using bfin-rtems4.11-gcc. Then i load it to
> bfin-rtems4.11-gdb and connect it to the gdb bfin simulator.
> Then i try to put a breakpoint in the file by opening then file.  The
> debugger complains that there is no such line number. Also there is no
> optimization set while compiling.
> This is making my debugging difficult since i have to look at the
> disassembly for debugging.  Is there any way i can use the C source for
> debugging.
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>>> Thankyou
>>> Rohan Kangralkar
>>>
>>
>>
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>
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> Thanks and regards
> Rohan Kangralkar
>
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