GDB Internals

• Requirements
• Overall Structure
  • The Symbol Side
  • The Target Side
  • Configurations
• Algorithms
  • Frames
  • Breakpoint Handling
  • Single Stepping
  • Signal Handling
  • Thread Handling
  • Inferior Function Calls
  • Longjmp Support
  • Watchpoints
    • x86 Watchpoints
  • Observing changes in GDB internals
• User Interface
  • Command Interpreter
  • UI-Independent Output--the ui_out Functions
    • Overview and Terminology
    • General Conventions
    • Table, Tuple and List Functions
    • Item Output Functions
    • Utility Output Functions
    • Examples of Use of ui_out functions
  • Console Printing
  • TUI
• libgdb
  • libgdb 1.0
  • libgdb 2.0
  • The libgdb Model
  • CLI support
  • libgdb components
• Symbol Handling
  • Symbol Reading
  • Partial Symbol Tables
  • Types
    • Fundamental Types (e.g., FT_VOID, FT_BOOLEAN).
    • Type Codes (e.g., TYPE_CODE_PTR, TYPE_CODE_ARRAY).
    • Builtin Types (e.g., builtin_type_void, builtin_type_char).
  • Object File Formats
    • a.out
    • COFF
    • ECOFF
    • XCOFF
    • PE
    • ELF
    • SOM
    • Other File Formats
  • Debugging File Formats
    • stabs
    • COFF
    • Mips debug (Third Eye)
    • DWARF 1
    • DWARF 2
    • SOM
  • Adding a New Symbol Reader to GDB
• Language Support
  • Adding a Source Language to GDB
• Host Definition
  • Adding a New Host
  • Host Conditionals
• Target Architecture Definition
  • Operating System ABI Variant Handling
  • Registers and Memory
  • Pointers Are Not Always Addresses
  • Address Classes
  • Raw and Virtual Register Representations
  • Using Different Register and Memory Data Representations
  • Frame Interpretation
  • Inferior Call Setup
  • Compiler Characteristics
  • Target Conditionals
  • Adding a New Target
  • Converting an existing Target Architecture to Multi-arch
    • Preparation
    • Add the multi-arch initialization code
    • Update multi-arch incompatible mechanisms
    • Prepare for multi-arch level to one
    • Set multi-arch level one
    • Convert remaining macros
    • Set multi-arch level to two
    • Delete the TM file
• Target Vector Definition
  • File Targets
  • Standard Protocol and Remote Stubs
  • ROM Monitor Interface
  • Custom Protocols
  • Transport Layer
  • Builtin Simulator
• Native Debugging
  • Native core file Support
  • ptrace
  • /proc
  • win32
  • shared libraries
  • Native Conditionals
• Support Libraries
  • BFD
  • opcodes
  • readline
  • mmalloc
  • libiberty
    • obstacks in GDB
  • gnu-regex
  • include
• Coding
  • Cleanups
  • Per-architecture module data
  • Wrapping Output Lines
  • GDB Coding Standards
    • ISO C
    • Memory Management
    • Compiler Warnings
    • Formatting
    • Comments
    • C Usage
    • Function Prototypes
    • Internal Error Recovery
    • File Names
    • Include Files
    • Clean Design and Portable Implementation
• Porting GDB
• Versions and Branches
  • Versions
  • Release Branches
  • Vendor Branches
  • Experimental Branches
    • Guidelines
    • Tags
• Releasing GDB
  • Branch Commit Policy
  • Obsoleting code
  • Before the Branch
    • Review the bug data base
    • Check all cross targets build
  • Cut the Branch
  • Stabilize the branch
  • Create a Release
    • Create a release candidate
    • Sanity check the tar ball
    • Make a release candidate available
    • Make a formal release available
    • Cleanup
  • Post release
• Testsuite
  • Using the Testsuite
  • Testsuite Organization
  • Writing Tests
• Hints
  • Getting Started
  • Debugging GDB with itself
  • Submitting Patches
  • Obsolete Conditionals
• GDB Currently available observers
  • Implementation rationale
  • Debugging
  • normal_stop Notifications
  • GNU Free Documentation License
    • ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
• Index

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