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<H1> Summary of GDB </H1>
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The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what is
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going on "inside" another program while it executes--or what another
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program was doing at the moment it crashed.
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GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of
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these) to help you catch bugs in the act:
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Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
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Make your program stop on specified conditions.
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Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.
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Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting the
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effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.
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You can use GDB to debug programs written in C and C<TT>++</TT>.
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For more information, see <A HREF="gdb_13.html#SEC111">Supported Languages</A>.
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For more information, see <A HREF="gdb_13.html#SEC112">C and C++</A>.
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<A NAME="IDX1"></A>
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Support for Modula-2 is partial. For information on Modula-2, see
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<A HREF="gdb_13.html#SEC129">Modula-2</A>.
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<A NAME="IDX2"></A>
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Debugging Pascal programs which use sets, subranges, file variables, or
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nested functions does not currently work. GDB does not support
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entering expressions, printing values, or similar features using Pascal
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syntax.
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GDB can be used to debug programs written in Fortran, although
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underscore.
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GDB can be used to debug programs written in Objective-C,
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using either the Apple/NeXT or the GNU Objective-C runtime.
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<H2> Free Software </H2>
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GDB is <EM>free software</EM>, protected by the GNU
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General Public License
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(GPL). The GPL gives you the freedom to copy or adapt a licensed
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program--but every person getting a copy also gets with it the
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freedom to modify that copy (which means that they must get access to
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the source code), and the freedom to distribute further copies.
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Free Software Foundation uses the GPL to preserve these freedoms.
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you have these freedoms and that you cannot take these freedoms away
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from anyone else.
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<H2> Free Software Needs Free Documentation </H2>
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The biggest deficiency in the free software community today is not in
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the software--it is the lack of good free documentation that we can
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include with the free software. Many of our most important
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programs do not come with free reference manuals and free introductory
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texts. Documentation is an essential part of any software package;
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when an important free software package does not come with a free
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manual and a free tutorial, that is a major gap. We have many such
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gaps today.
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Consider Perl, for instance. The tutorial manuals that people
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normally use are non-free. How did this come about? Because the
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authors of those manuals published them with restrictive terms--no
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copying, no modification, source files not available--which exclude
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them from the free software world.
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</P><P>
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That wasn't the first time this sort of thing happened, and it was far
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from the last. Many times we have heard a GNU user eagerly describe a
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manual that he is writing, his intended contribution to the community,
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only to learn that he had ruined everything by signing a publication
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contract to make it non-free.
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</P><P>
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Free documentation, like free software, is a matter of freedom, not
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price. The problem with the non-free manual is not that publishers
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charge a price for printed copies--that in itself is fine. (The Free
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Software Foundation sells printed copies of manuals, too.) The
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problem is the restrictions on the use of the manual. Free manuals
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are available in source code form, and give you permission to copy and
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modify. Non-free manuals do not allow this.
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</P><P>
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The criteria of freedom for a free manual are roughly the same as for
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free software. Redistribution (including the normal kinds of
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commercial redistribution) must be permitted, so that the manual can
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accompany every copy of the program, both on-line and on paper.
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</P><P>
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Permission for modification of the technical content is crucial too.
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When people modify the software, adding or changing features, if they
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are conscientious they will change the manual too--so they can
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provide accurate and clear documentation for the modified program. A
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manual that leaves you no choice but to write a new manual to document
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a changed version of the program is not really available to our
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community.
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</P><P>
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Some kinds of limits on the way modification is handled are
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acceptable. For example, requirements to preserve the original
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author's copyright notice, the distribution terms, or the list of
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authors, are ok. It is also no problem to require modified versions
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to include notice that they were modified. Even entire sections that
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may not be deleted or changed are acceptable, as long as they deal
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with nontechnical topics (like this one). These kinds of restrictions
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are acceptable because they don't obstruct the community's normal use
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of the manual.
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</P><P>
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However, it must be possible to modify all the <EM>technical</EM>
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content of the manual, and then distribute the result in all the usual
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media, through all the usual channels. Otherwise, the restrictions
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obstruct the use of the manual, it is not free, and we need another
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manual to replace it.
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</P><P>
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Please spread the word about this issue. Our community continues to
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lose manuals to proprietary publishing. If we spread the word that
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free software needs free reference manuals and free tutorials, perhaps
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the next person who wants to contribute by writing documentation will
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realize, before it is too late, that only free manuals contribute to
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the free software community.
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</P><P>
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If you are writing documentation, please insist on publishing it under
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the GNU Free Documentation License or another free documentation
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license. Remember that this decision requires your approval--you
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don't have to let the publisher decide. Some commercial publishers
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will use a free license if you insist, but they will not propose the
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option; it is up to you to raise the issue and say firmly that this is
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what you want. If the publisher you are dealing with refuses, please
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try other publishers. If you're not sure whether a proposed license
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is free, write to <A HREF="mailto:licensing@gnu.org">licensing@gnu.org</A>.
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</P><P>
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You can encourage commercial publishers to sell more free, copylefted
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manuals and tutorials by buying them, and particularly by buying
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copies from the publishers that paid for their writing or for major
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improvements. Meanwhile, try to avoid buying non-free documentation
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at all. Check the distribution terms of a manual before you buy it,
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and insist that whoever seeks your business must respect your freedom.
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Check the history of the book, and try to reward the publishers that
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have paid or pay the authors to work on it.
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</P><P>
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The Free Software Foundation maintains a list of free documentation
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published by other publishers, at
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<A HREF="http://www.fsf.org/doc/other-free-books.html">http://www.fsf.org/doc/other-free-books.html</A>.
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</P><P>
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<A NAME="Contributors"></A>
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<H2> Contributors to GDB </H2>
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Richard Stallman was the original author of GDB, and of many
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other GNU programs. Many others have contributed to its
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development. This section attempts to credit major contributors. One
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of the virtues of free software is that everyone is free to contribute
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to it; with regret, we cannot actually acknowledge everyone here. The
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file <TT>`ChangeLog'</TT> in the GDB distribution approximates a
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blow-by-blow account.
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Changes much prior to version 2.0 are lost in the mists of time.
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<EM>Plea:</EM> Additions to this section are particularly welcome. If you
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or your friends (or enemies, to be evenhanded) have been unfairly
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omitted from this list, we would like to add your names!
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So that they may not regard their many labors as thankless, we
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particularly thank those who shepherded GDB through major
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releases:
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Andrew Cagney (releases 6.3, 6.2, 6.1, 6.0, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1 and 5.0);
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Jim Blandy (release 4.18);
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Jason Molenda (release 4.17);
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Stan Shebs (release 4.14);
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Fred Fish (releases 4.16, 4.15, 4.13, 4.12, 4.11, 4.10, and 4.9);
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Stu Grossman and John Gilmore (releases 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, and 4.4);
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John Gilmore (releases 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, and 3.9);
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Jim Kingdon (releases 3.5, 3.4, and 3.3);
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and Randy Smith (releases 3.2, 3.1, and 3.0).
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Richard Stallman, assisted at various times by Peter TerMaat, Chris
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Hanson, and Richard Mlynarik, handled releases through 2.8.
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</P><P>
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Michael Tiemann is the author of most of the GNU C<TT>++</TT> support
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in GDB, with significant additional contributions from Per
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Bothner and Daniel Berlin. James Clark wrote the GNU C<TT>++</TT>
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demangler. Early work on C<TT>++</TT> was by Peter TerMaat (who also did
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much general update work leading to release 3.0).
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</P><P>
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GDB uses the BFD subroutine library to examine multiple
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object-file formats; BFD was a joint project of David V.
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Henkel-Wallace, Rich Pixley, Steve Chamberlain, and John Gilmore.
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</P><P>
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David Johnson wrote the original COFF support; Pace Willison did
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the original support for encapsulated COFF.
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</P><P>
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Brent Benson of Harris Computer Systems contributed DWARF 2 support.
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</P><P>
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Adam de Boor and Bradley Davis contributed the ISI Optimum V support.
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Per Bothner, Noboyuki Hikichi, and Alessandro Forin contributed MIPS
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support.
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Jean-Daniel Fekete contributed Sun 386i support.
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Chris Hanson improved the HP9000 support.
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Noboyuki Hikichi and Tomoyuki Hasei contributed Sony/News OS 3 support.
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David Johnson contributed Encore Umax support.
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Jyrki Kuoppala contributed Altos 3068 support.
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Jeff Law contributed HP PA and SOM support.
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Keith Packard contributed NS32K support.
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Doug Rabson contributed Acorn Risc Machine support.
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Bob Rusk contributed Harris Nighthawk CX-UX support.
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Chris Smith contributed Convex support (and Fortran debugging).
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Jonathan Stone contributed Pyramid support.
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Michael Tiemann contributed SPARC support.
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Tim Tucker contributed support for the Gould NP1 and Gould Powernode.
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Pace Willison contributed Intel 386 support.
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Jay Vosburgh contributed Symmetry support.
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Marko Mlinar contributed OpenRISC 1000 support.
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Andreas Schwab contributed M68K GNU/Linux support.
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Rich Schaefer and Peter Schauer helped with support of SunOS shared
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libraries.
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Jay Fenlason and Roland McGrath ensured that GDB and GAS agree
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about several machine instruction sets.
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</P><P>
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Patrick Duval, Ted Goldstein, Vikram Koka and Glenn Engel helped develop
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remote debugging. Intel Corporation, Wind River Systems, AMD, and ARM
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contributed remote debugging modules for the i960, VxWorks, A29K UDI,
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and RDI targets, respectively.
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Brian Fox is the author of the readline libraries providing
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command-line editing and command history.
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</P><P>
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Andrew Beers of SUNY Buffalo wrote the language-switching code, the
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Modula-2 support, and contributed the Languages chapter of this manual.
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</P><P>
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Fred Fish wrote most of the support for Unix System Vr4.
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He also enhanced the command-completion support to cover C<TT>++</TT> overloaded
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symbols.
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</P><P>
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Hitachi America (now Renesas America), Ltd. sponsored the support for
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H8/300, H8/500, and Super-H processors.
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</P><P>
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NEC sponsored the support for the v850, Vr4xxx, and Vr5xxx processors.
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</P><P>
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Mitsubishi (now Renesas) sponsored the support for D10V, D30V, and M32R/D
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processors.
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</P><P>
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Toshiba sponsored the support for the TX39 Mips processor.
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</P><P>
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Matsushita sponsored the support for the MN10200 and MN10300 processors.
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</P><P>
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Fujitsu sponsored the support for SPARClite and FR30 processors.
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</P><P>
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Kung Hsu, Jeff Law, and Rick Sladkey added support for hardware
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watchpoints.
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</P><P>
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Michael Snyder added support for tracepoints.
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</P><P>
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Stu Grossman wrote gdbserver.
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</P><P>
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Jim Kingdon, Peter Schauer, Ian Taylor, and Stu Grossman made
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nearly innumerable bug fixes and cleanups throughout GDB.
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</P><P>
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The following people at the Hewlett-Packard Company contributed
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support for the PA-RISC 2.0 architecture, HP-UX 10.20, 10.30, and 11.0
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(narrow mode), HP's implementation of kernel threads, HP's aC<TT>++</TT>
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compiler, and the Text User Interface (nee Terminal User Interface):
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Ben Krepp, Richard Title, John Bishop, Susan Macchia, Kathy Mann,
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Satish Pai, India Paul, Steve Rehrauer, and Elena Zannoni. Kim Haase
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provided HP-specific information in this manual.
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</P><P>
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DJ Delorie ported GDB to MS-DOS, for the DJGPP project.
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Robert Hoehne made significant contributions to the DJGPP port.
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</P><P>
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Cygnus Solutions has sponsored GDB maintenance and much of its
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development since 1991. Cygnus engineers who have worked on GDB
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fulltime include Mark Alexander, Jim Blandy, Per Bothner, Kevin
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Buettner, Edith Epstein, Chris Faylor, Fred Fish, Martin Hunt, Jim
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Ingham, John Gilmore, Stu Grossman, Kung Hsu, Jim Kingdon, John Metzler,
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Fernando Nasser, Geoffrey Noer, Dawn Perchik, Rich Pixley, Zdenek
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Radouch, Keith Seitz, Stan Shebs, David Taylor, and Elena Zannoni. In
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addition, Dave Brolley, Ian Carmichael, Steve Chamberlain, Nick Clifton,
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JT Conklin, Stan Cox, DJ Delorie, Ulrich Drepper, Frank Eigler, Doug
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Evans, Sean Fagan, David Henkel-Wallace, Richard Henderson, Jeff
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Holcomb, Jeff Law, Jim Lemke, Tom Lord, Bob Manson, Michael Meissner,
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Jason Merrill, Catherine Moore, Drew Moseley, Ken Raeburn, Gavin
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Romig-Koch, Rob Savoye, Jamie Smith, Mike Stump, Ian Taylor, Angela
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Thomas, Michael Tiemann, Tom Tromey, Ron Unrau, Jim Wilson, and David
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Zuhn have made contributions both large and small.
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</P><P>
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Andrew Cagney, Fernando Nasser, and Elena Zannoni, while working for
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Cygnus Solutions, implemented the original GDB/MI interface.
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</P><P>
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Jim Blandy added support for preprocessor macros, while working for Red
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Hat.
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</P><P>
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Andrew Cagney designed GDB's architecture vector. Many
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people including Andrew Cagney, Stephane Carrez, Randolph Chung, Nick
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Duffek, Richard Henderson, Mark Kettenis, Grace Sainsbury, Kei
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Sakamoto, Yoshinori Sato, Michael Snyder, Andreas Schwab, Jason
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Thorpe, Corinna Vinschen, Ulrich Weigand, and Elena Zannoni, helped
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with the migration of old architectures to this new framework.
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</P><P>
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Andrew Cagney completely re-designed and re-implemented GDB's
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unwinder framework, this consisting of a fresh new design featuring
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frame IDs, independent frame sniffers, and the sentinel frame. Mark
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Kettenis implemented the DWARF 2 unwinder, Jeff Johnston the
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libunwind unwinder, and Andrew Cagney the dummy, sentinel, tramp, and
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trad unwinders. The architecture-specific changes, each involving a
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complete rewrite of the architecture's frame code, were carried out by
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Jim Blandy, Joel Brobecker, Kevin Buettner, Andrew Cagney, Stephane
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Carrez, Randolph Chung, Orjan Friberg, Richard Henderson, Daniel
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Jacobowitz, Jeff Johnston, Mark Kettenis, Theodore A. Roth, Kei
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Sakamoto, Yoshinori Sato, Michael Snyder, Corinna Vinschen, and Ulrich
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Weigand.
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</P><P>
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Christian Zankel, Ross Morley, Bob Wilson, and Maxim Grigoriev from
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Tensilica, Inc. contributed support for Xtensa processors. Others
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who have worked on the Xtensa port of GDB in the past include
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Steve Tjiang, John Newlin, and Scott Foehner.
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