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Re: RFC: "set osabi"
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:05:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFC: "set osabi"
- References: <20021228034746.GA25677@nevyn.them.org> <20030104234905.GG28756@nevyn.them.org>
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:49:05PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 10:47:46PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > As promised. I'm also looking for comments on this patch. I know it needs
> > documentation still; that's on hold for a moment because it would conflict
> > with one of my other pending doc patches (since I want to put them in the
> > same section). I'll do the docs before committing this.
Except I didn't. Here they are; committed.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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2003-01-04 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
+ * gdb.texinfo (Controlling GDB): Document "set osabi".
+
+2003-01-04 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
+
* gdb.texinfo (Backtraces): Document "set backtrace-below-main".
* gdbint.texinfo (FRAME_CHAIN_VALID): Update documentation.
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@@ -12531,6 +12531,29 @@ application automatically. However, som
conclusions. Use these commands to manage @value{GDBN}'s view of the
current ABI.
+@cindex OS ABI
+@kindex set osabi
+
+One @value{GDBN} configuration can debug binaries for multiple operating
+system targets, either via remote debugging or native emulation.
+@value{GDBN} will autodetect the @dfn{OS ABI} (Operating System ABI) in use,
+but you can override its conclusion using the @code{set osabi} command.
+One example where this is useful is in debugging of binaries which use
+an alternate C library (e.g.@: @sc{uClibc} for @sc{gnu}/Linux) which does
+not have the same identifying marks that the standard C library for your
+platform provides.
+
+@table @code
+@item show osabi
+Show the OS ABI currently in use.
+
+@item set osabi
+With no argument, show the list of registered available OS ABI's.
+
+@item set osabi @var{abi}
+Set the current OS ABI to @var{abi}.
+@end table
+
@cindex float promotion
@kindex set coerce-float-to-double