Debugging with GDB Manual HP WDB v6.3 (5900-2180, August 2012)

Michael Tiemann is the author of most of the GNU C++ support in GDB, with significant additional
contributions from Per Bothner. James Clark wrote the GNU C++ demangler. Early work on C++
was by Peter TerMaat (who also did much general update work leading to release 3.0).
GDB 4 uses the BFD subroutine library to examine multiple object-file formats; BFD was a joint
project of David V. Henkel-Wallace, Rich Pixley, Steve Chamberlain, and John Gilmore.
David Johnson wrote the original COFF support; Pace Willison did the original support for
encapsulated COFF.
Brent Benson of Harris Computer Systems contributed DWARF 2 support.
Adam de Boor and Bradley Davis contributed the ISI Optimum V support. Per Bothner, Noboyuki
Hikichi, and Alessandro Forin contributed MIPS support. Jean-Daniel Fekete contributed Sun 386i
support. Chris Hanson improved the HP 9000 support. Noboyuki Hikichi and Tomoyuki Hasei
contributed Sony/News OS 3 support. David Johnson contributed Encore Umax support. Jyrki
Kuoppala contributed Altos 3068 support. Jeff Law contributed HP PA and SOM support. Keith
Packard contributed NS32K support. Doug Rabson contributed Acorn Risc Machine support. Bob
Rusk contributed Harris Nighthawk CX-UX support. Chris Smith contributed Convex support (and
Fortran debugging). Jonathan Stone contributed Pyramid support. Michael Tiemann contributed
SPARC support. Tim Tucker contributed support for the Gould NP1 and Gould Powernode. Pace
Willison contributed Intel 386 support. Jay Vosburgh contributed Symmetry support.
Andreas Schwab contributed M68K Linux support.
Rich Schaefer and Peter Schauer helped with support of SunOS shared libraries.
Jay Fenlason and Roland McGrath ensured that GDB and GAS agree about several machine
instruction sets.
Patrick Duval, Ted Goldstein, Vikram Koka and Glenn Engel helped develop remote debugging.
Intel Corporation, Wind River Systems, AMD, and ARM contributed remote debugging modules
for the i960, VxWorks, A29K UDI, and RDI targets, respectively.
Brian Fox is the author of the readline libraries providing command-line editing and command
history.
Andrew Beers of SUNY Buffalo wrote the language-switching code, the Modula-2 support, and
contributed the Languages chapter of this manual.
Fred Fish wrote most of the support for Unix System Vr4. He also enhanced the command-completion
support to cover C++ overloaded symbols.
Hitachi America, Ltd. sponsored the support for H8/300, H8/500, and Super-H processors.
NEC sponsored the support for the v850, Vr4xxx, and Vr5xxx processors.
Mitsubishi sponsored the support for D10V, D30V, and M32R/D processors.
Toshiba sponsored the support for the TX39 Mips processor.
Matsushita sponsored the support for the MN10200 and MN10300 processors.
Fujitsu sponsored the support for SPARClite and FR30 processors.
Kung Hsu, Je Law, and Rick Sladkey added support for hardware watchpoints.
Michael Snyder added support for tracepoints.
Stu Grossman wrote gdbserver.
Jim Kingdon, Peter Schauer, Ian Taylor, and Stu Grossman made nearly innumerable bug fixes
and cleanups throughout GDB.
The following people at the Hewlett-Packard Company contributed support for the PA-RISC 2.0
architecture, HP-UX 10.20, 10.30, and 11.x (narrow mode), HP's implementation of kernel threads,
HP's aC++ compiler, and the terminal user interface: Ben Krepp, Richard Title, John Bishop, Susan
Macchia, Kathy Mann, Satish Pai, India Paul, Steve Rehrauer, and Elena Zannoni. Kim Haase,
Rosario de la Torre, Alex McKale, Michael Coulter, Carl Burch, Bharath Chndramohan, Diwakar
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