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Can I use CDT to debug COFF object file? [message #1834540]

Thu, 12 November 2020 06:23

Jubo Ge

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Registered: November 2020

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I'm a rookie at Eclipse/CDT and ran into some problems.

Our project wants to develop applications, written in C Language, for TI DSP hardware. Its object file format follows the COFF instead of ELF or PE.

We could debug it by GDB, but I don't know how to use CDT/CDT GUI to do that. It seems that the CDT/CDI cannot identify the COFF format and create the link between source code and object file.

How can we make it?

[Updated on: Thu, 12 November 2020 09:01]

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Re: Can I use CDT to debug COFF object file? [message #1834573 is a reply to message #1834540]

Thu, 12 November 2020 15:58

Tauno Voipio

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Registered: August 2014

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The Eclipse debugging goes through GDB, Eclipse is a front-end to GDB user interface. If you have a (cross-)GDB for your processor and binary format (COFF), it should just be possible to configure CDT to use the proper GDB as its back-end.

See the CDT help instructions on debug setup. This does, however, need that your GDB is new enough to match the Eclipse machine interface (MI), see GDB manual.

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