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‎Resources

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‎Xscale

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‎A few essential GDB commands

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‎Resources

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‎GDB

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‎Remote debugging example

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‎GDB

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‎GDB

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‎A few essential GDB commands

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‎GDB dažas komandas

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 =Resources=
+===Tutorials===
+* Setting up [[ARM development environment on Ubuntu]]
 ===Make===

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 * [http://download.intel.com/design/intelxscale/27347302.pdf Intel XScale(R) Core Developer’s Manual]
 * [http://download.intel.com/design/intelxscale/27347302.pdf Intel XScale R Core Developer’s Manual], ON: 273473-002, Intel Corporation, 2004
+== Insights ==
+* [http://norvig.com/21-days.html Teach yourself programming in 10 years] by Peter Norvig
+* [https://qr.ae/pGBj0b Should I learn assembly language to program a microcontroller?] - Answer on Quora by software R&D professional with 40 years of experience.

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 | list
 | l
-| Shows the source code (lines). Could be followed by a function_name or file:filename
+| Shows the source code (lines). Could be followed by a function_name or file:line_number
 |-
 | info registers

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 =Resources=
-====Make====
+===Make===
 * [https://www.cs.colby.edu/maxwell/courses/tutorials/maketutor/ A simple Makefile tutorial]
 * [http://www.bravegnu.org/gnu-eprog/ Embedded Programming using the GNU Toolchain]
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-====ARM====
+===ARM===
 * [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/restricted/arm_isa_quick_reference.pdf ARM instruction set quick reference] - from U.Wisconsin.
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 * [https://developer.arm.com/architectures/system-architectures/software-standards/abi Application Binary Interface (ABI)] for the Arm architecture
 * [https://developer.arm.com/architectures/instruction-sets/base-isas/a32 ARM A32 instruction set]. Note, that ARM has several [https://developer.arm.com/architectures/instruction-sets instruction sets described here]
 ====Xscale====

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 * [https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/ GNU Make manual]
-====GDB====
+===GDB===
 * [https://www.cs.umd.edu/~srhuang/teaching/cmsc212/gdb-tutorial-handout.pdf GDB tutorial] from UMD
 * [https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/04/30/the-gdb-developers-gnu-debugger-tutorial-part-1-getting-started-with-the-debugger GDB getting started tutorial]

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 ** Before you do this, make sure that the port is not in use by anyone or anything.
 * Then start the gdb-multiarch with the name of the program and
-* specify the remote target address (localhost) and the port (12345).
+* Use the gdb command "remote target" with address (localhost) and the port (12345).
 * Finally start the program execution with "continue". Perhaps, you may want to set some breakpoints before that.

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 * [http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/ GDB manual]
-* Remote debugging example, using 12345 as the communications port on localhost, running myprog with a parameter 10.
+====Remote debugging example====
+Debugging myprog with a parameter 10.
- qemu-arm -L /usr/arm-linux-gnueabi -g 12345 myprog 10 &
+* First, start the qemu emulator, providing the communications port (12345), and run it in background (&).
- gdb-multiarch md1
+** Before you do this, make sure that the port is not in use by anyone or anything.
-   target remote localhost:12345
+* Then start the gdb-multiarch with the name of the program and
-   continue
+* specify the remote target address (localhost) and the port (12345).
+* Finally start the program execution with "continue". Perhaps, you may want to set some breakpoints before that.
+ $ qemu-arm -L /usr/arm-linux-gnueabi -g 12345 myprog 10 &
+ $ gdb-multiarch myprog
+     (gdb) target remote localhost:12345
+     (gdb) continue
 ====A few essential GDB commands====

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 | run
 |
-| Run the program from start
+| Run the program from the beginning
 |-
 | continue

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 ====A few essential GDB commands====
-== GDB dažas komandas ==
 {| border=1
 | GDB command