The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 4)
September 10, 2020 posted by Kamil Rytarowski
The NetBSD team of developers maintains two copies of GDB:
One in the base-system with a stack of local patches.
One in pkgsrc with mostly build fix patches.
The base-system version of GDB (GPLv3) still relies on a set of local
patches. I set a goal to reduce the local patches to bare minimum,
ideally reaching no local modifications at all.
Over the past month I worked on gdbserver for NetBSD/amd64 and finally
upstreamed it to the GDB mainline, just in time for GDB 10.
http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_gnu_gdb_debugger_and3
NetBSD is the first BSD and actually the first Open Source UNIX-like OS
besides Linux to grow support for gdbserver.
Plan for the next milestone
Introduce AArch64 support for GDB/NetBSD.
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