GDB Internals

John Gilmore
Cygnus Solutions
Second Edition:
Stan Shebs
Cygnus Solutions


(1)

The function cast is not portable ISO C.

(2)

As of this writing (April 2001), setting verbosity level is not yet implemented, and is always returned as zero. So calling ui_out_message with a verbosity argument more than zero will cause the message to never be printed.

(3)

Some D10V instructions are actually pairs of 16-bit sub-instructions. However, since you can't jump into the middle of such a pair, code addresses can only refer to full 32 bit instructions, which is what matters in this explanation.

(4)

The above is from the original example and uses K&R C. GDB has since converted to ISO C but lets ignore that.


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