Add a (small) GDB tips section
#977
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Thanks for the suggestions @hugovk. I made a comment on one. Do you know how to edit it? |
Yep, done! |
Incorporate feedback from @hugovk to the PR. Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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This is kind of related to this (by now a bit stale) PR. |
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Hmmm... The rest of the document seems to differ a bit from what these suggestions indicate. For example, sections about GDB 6 and 7 use "gdb" instead of "GDB". Should I just go through the file and make all the style suggestions in one go? |
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Okay, I screwed up (again). I think I had accepted some earlier suggestions, but not incorporated them locally. Now when I try to push, I get: How do I fix this? |
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Maybe something like |
IMO it is better to apply such a change in a separate issue/PR. For this PR, just follow the guidelines. There are some inconsistencies, for example regarding the indent level, but larger parts of the affected file does follow the existing guidelines regarding indent level. |
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
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Took a while, but I finally got things sync'd back up and accepted the various suggestions. |
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
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Thanks for this enhancement, Skip! |
This adds a GDB Tips section which describes two (I think) useful features when debugging the virtual machine, saving breakpoints to a file, and setting breakpoints at
TARGET_<INST>labels.