Re: [cdt-dev] CDT 2.1 RC1/2: Problems with Remote Debugging

[Dave Inglis <dinglis@xxxxxxx>]

I have made changes to re-support IBinaryObjects in the debugger/launch 
APIs, if you would like to update (either cdt_21 or HEAD) you can give 
it a try.

Dave.

Neugebauer Manfred wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Dave (see last entry in the history of this bug 77643) received already a
> copy of my executable. His analysis was that the problem is related to the
> fact, that my executable is linked relocatable (linked with -r). From the
> last mail I understand that IBinaryExecutable is currently not able to
> interprete this type of executable (although gdb can handle this as input to
> a debug session).
>
> Now I'm interested in the next steps:
> - are there plans to correct this problem in CDT 2.1 (or later) to get the
> old state back 
> - hints that I can make the correction (and feed it back to the community)
> - it will never work again
>
> Thanks. Manfred.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Alain Magloire
> Sent: Mittwoch, 17. November 2004 16:48
> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] CDT 2.1 RC1/2: Problems with Remote Debugging
>
>
>
> > Hallo,
>
>
> a` l'eau ?
>
>
> > Since one year we and our customers are using Eclipse / CDT successfully
>
> for
>
> > developing and debugging C / C++ applications running on the Siemens
> > realtime kernel RMOS. With CDT 2.1 RC1 we recognized a problem when
> > launching a (remote) debug session. As it turned out the problem is that
>
> the
>
> > new CDT 2.1 update cannot handle executables which are linked relocatable
> > (see bug report 77643). This executable configuration is required that gdb
> > and the RMOS loading system work together. This type of launching was
> > possible up to CDT 2.0.2 and I don't know why this has changed now. This
> > problem will prevent us to use CDT 2.1 which is not a very good option.
> >
> > Can somebody check if it is possible to get this feature back into the CDT
> > 2.1 release chain? If any support is needed we should talk about this.
>
>
> The launch was change, it requires now a IBinaryExecutable.
> And it looks like the BinaryParser(Elf, GNU/Elf ?) do not recognize it
> your file as a valid excutable, that would be my first guess.
>
> Can you attach the offending file to the PR?
>
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