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
• User Interface
  • Command Interpreter
  • Console Printing
  • TUI
  • libgdb
• Symbol Handling
  • Symbol Reading
  • Partial Symbol Tables
  • Types
  • 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
• GDB Overview
  • Libraries used by GDB
  • GDB Directory Structure
  • Overview of Source Files
    • Top Level
    • GDB Targets / Program Control
    • Types, Values, and Expressions
    • Stack Analysis
    • Breakpoints
    • Symbol File Management
    • Language-Specific Sources
    • Kernel Debugging
    • Sources Specific to Mac OS X
    • PowerPC-specific Sources
    • Miscellaneous
    • Assorted Utilities
• Target Architecture Definition
  • Registers and Memory
  • Frame Interpretation
  • Inferior Call Setup
  • Compiler Characteristics
  • Target Conditionals
  • Adding a New Target
• 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
  • gnu-regex
  • include
• Coding
  • Cleanups
  • Wrapping Output Lines
  • GDB Coding Standards
    • Formatting
    • Comments
    • C Usage
    • Function Prototypes
    • Clean Design
• Porting GDB
  • Configuring GDB for Release
• Testsuite
  • Using the Testsuite
  • Testsuite Organization
  • Writing Tests
• Hints
  • Getting Started
  • Debugging GDB with itself
  • Submitting Patches
  • Obsolete Conditionals

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