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In a test I was writting, I needed a procedure that would connect to the target, and do "load", or equivalent. Years ago, boards would override gdb_load to implement that. Then gdb_reload was added, and gdb_load was relaxed to allow boards avoid the spawing and connecting to the target. This sped up gdbserver testing. See https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-02/msg00318.html. To actually spawn the target and load the executable on the target side, gdb_reload was born: # gdb_reload -- load a file into the target. Called before "running", # either the first time or after already starting the program once, # for remote targets. Most files that override gdb_load should now # override this instead. proc gdb_reload { } { # For the benefit of existing configurations, default to gdb_load. # Specifying no file defaults to the executable currently being # debugged. return [gdb_load ""] } Note the comment about specifying no file. Indeed looking at config/sid.exp, or config/monitor.exp, we see examples of that. However, the default gdb_load itself doesn't handle the case of no file specified. When passed no file, it just calls gdb_file_cmd with no file either, which ends up invocing the "file" command with no argument, which means unloading the file and its symbols... That means calling gdb_reload when testing against native targets is broken. We don't see that today because the only call to gdb_reload that exists today is guarded by target_info exists gdb,do_reload_on_run. The native-extended-gdbserver.exp board is likewise broken here. When [gdb_load ""] is called, the board sets the remote exec-file to "" ... Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17, native, remote gdbserver and extended-remote gdbserver. testsuite/ 2014-05-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * lib/gdb.exp (gdb_load): Extend comment. Skip calling gdb_file_cmd if no file is specified. * boards/native-extended-gdbserver.exp (gdb_load): Use the last_loaded_file to set the remote exec-file.
README for GNU development tools This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers, debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation. If you are receiving this as part of a GDB release, see the file gdb/README. If with a binutils release, see binutils/README; if with a libg++ release, see libg++/README, etc. That'll give you info about this package -- supported targets, how to use it, how to report bugs, etc. It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of tools with one command. To build all of the tools contained herein, run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.: ./configure make To install them (by default in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc), then do: make install (If the configure script can't determine your type of computer, give it the name as an argument, for instance ``./configure sun4''. You can use the script ``config.sub'' to test whether a name is recognized; if it is, config.sub translates it to a triplet specifying CPU, vendor, and OS.) If you have more than one compiler on your system, it is often best to explicitly set CC in the environment before running configure, and to also set CC when running make. For example (assuming sh/bash/ksh): CC=gcc ./configure make A similar example using csh: setenv CC gcc ./configure make Much of the code and documentation enclosed is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the file COPYING or COPYING.LIB in the various directories, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files. REPORTING BUGS: Again, see gdb/README, binutils/README, etc., for info on where and how to report problems.