Debugging with GDB (September 2007)

2 Debugging with GDB

So that they may not regard their many labors as thankless, we particularly thank those

who shepherded GDB through major releases: Andrew Cagney (release 5.0); Jim Blandy

(release 4.18); Jason Molenda (release 4.17); Stan Shebs (release 4.14); Fred Fish (release s

4.16, 4.15, 4.13, 4.12, 4.11, 4.10, and 4.9); Stu Grossman and John Gilmore (releases 4.8,

4.7, 4.6, 4.5, and 4.4); John Gilmore (releases 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, and 3.9); Jim Kingdon

(releases 3.5, 3.4, and 3.3); and Randy Smith (releases 3.2, 3.1, and 3.0).

Richard Stallman, assisted at various times by Peter TerMaat, Chris Hanson, and

Richard Mlynarik, handled releases through 2.8.

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 HP9000 support. Noboyuki

Hikichi and Tomoyuki Hasei contributed Sony/News OS 3 support. David Johnson con-

tributed 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 de-

bugging). Jonathan Stone contributed Pyramid support. Michael Tiemann contributed

SPARC support. Tim Tucker contributed support for the Gould NP1 and Gould Powern-

ode. Pace Willison contributed Intel 386 support. Jay Vosburgh c ontributed 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, resp ec tively.

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 sup-

port, 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.