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Le vendredi 4 septembre 2020 à 01:15:04 UTC+2, A. Wik (awik32 AT gmail DOT com) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] a écrit :
> Hi all,
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 22:55, sleep DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmx DOT de [via dj DOT  DOT  DOT  AT delorie DOT com] 
> <dj DOT  DOT  DOT  AT delorie DOT com> wrote: 
> > 
> > "Serial debugging" was mentioned, I at first thought this would work 
> > similar, just using a serialconnection instead of ethernet. Apparently 
> > it does not work the same way as you'd debug a program via gdbserver 
> > running on a remote system. 
> > I'm not familiar with that at all. Can someone point me to an explanation? 

Gdb and gdbserver have conception problems and have quiet the same hardware requirements. Gdb teams try solve that since a long time by making them sharing more and more software but when djgpp was supported by gdb, gdbserver did not. Now, they simply drop djgpp support since version 8 or 9.

To remote or cross debug, you have to build a cross gdb that target i586-msdos-djgpp. Gdb 7.12 is okay for that. 

To debug your program running on djgpp compliant environment, you have to embedded a gdbstub. You can find one on djgpp ftp. The stub will act like gdbserver by implementing gdb communication protocol but it will be a part of your program that will catch interruption and talk to gdb at this moment.
Stubs use serial connection because it use less hardware and software that tcp/IP over ethernet. 

> > Since I am somewhat familiar with gdb and it is very common, going a 
> > route that rests on that would probably make most sense, even if it 
> > works somewhat different on DOS.

The stubs on ftp doesn't implement all gdb features. It's okay for breakpoint, stepping, read and write memory, intercepted segmentation fault. Your program have to be single threaded, multi thread is not implemented. 

S. Guillaume