GDB Notes

Articles about debugging languages not supported by GDB with GDB

• http://www.mono-project.com/docs/debug+profile/debug/
• https://golang.org/doc/gdb

Dwarf Specs

• http://dwarfstd.org/doc/dwarf-2.0.0.pdf
• http://dwarfstd.org/doc/Dwarf3.pdf

CMSIS-DAP GDB Server

The only FOSS (Apache Lic.) implementation I found comes from the pyOCD project (https://github.com/mbedmicro/pyOCD). This is a library to debug and write devices using CMSIS-DAP from Python. That being said, the gdb server can be built into a standalone binary without dependencies on Python so we might be able to use it.

Visual Studio GDB

Visual Studio 2015 comes with support for GDB via the Debug.MIDebugLaunch command.

There also exist two plugins to allow using Visual Studio as a GDB frontend, both of them commercial, so they won't work for us.

• http://www.visualgdb.com/
• http://www.wingdb.com/