From: Creighton MacDonnell <creighton@macdonnell.ca>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Problem with COM1 port from with GDB 5.3 under Cygwin 1.5.3-1
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F5CF772.9050509@macdonnell.ca> (raw)
I upgraded my Cygwin installation a few days ago (Thursday, September 4)
to the new 1.5.3-1 version, from the previous 1.3.22-1 version.
This broke a self-compiled (under the previous 1.3.22-1 version of
Cygwin) version of GDB 5.3 compiled for "arm-elf" that I use.
It seems to me that GDB simply hangs after opening the COM1 serial port
when trying to make an "RDI" (Angel Debug) connection.
I have recompiled my GNU tools with the new version of Cygwin but I have
the same problem.
I still have my old installation of Cygwin, which still works. From this
I know that the problem is not with the target board or the serial port
on my PC.
So something has changed in the Cygwin support for serial devices.
I have posted to the Cygwin mailing list, but I thought I would try this
list too.
I had noticed previously that GDB would not use a serial port if it was
refered to as /dev/com1 or /dev/ttyS0 (it would say and still says that
it could not open it), although Cygwin claims to support these names.
But it did work if "com1" was used as the device name.
I have looked at the code for serial device access in the GDB source,
and it does not seem to make any special allowance for Cygwin. I see in
the GDB code (after only a very quick look) some sort of "serial
interface discovery" process. This suggests that GDB does not just go
ahead and attempt to open the device name. So understanding this code
would probably not be trivial.
Does anyone else on this list use GDB in this way? Do you also have
problems with Cygwin 1.5.1-1?
Is there anyone on this list with insight into the GDB code for
accessing serial ports who might be able to suggest a hack that I might
attempt to the code?
Thanks.
next reply other threads:[~2003-09-08 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-08 21:41 Creighton MacDonnell [this message]
2003-09-10 11:54 Thomas Doerfler
2003-09-10 14:55 ` Creighton MacDonnell
2003-09-10 15:18 ` Thomas Doerfler
2003-09-10 16:48 ` Creighton MacDonnell
2003-09-10 18:55 ` Thomas Doerfler
2003-09-10 18:56 ` Problem with COM1 port from with GDB 5.3 under cygwin 1.5.3-1 Christopher Faylor
2003-09-10 20:05 ` Creighton MacDonnell
2003-09-10 21:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-23 19:07 Problem with COM1 port from with GDB 5.3 under Cygwin 1.5.3-1 Creighton MacDonnell
2003-09-24 5:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-24 18:12 ` Problem with COM1 port from with GDB 5.3 under cygwin 1.5.3-1 Christopher Faylor
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