Software Development Tools for Embedded Systems
Catalin Dan Udma
This chapter focuses on the software development tools for embedded systems, especially on the debugging and investigation tools. The chapter starts by presenting the capabilities of a source code debugger – a tool that allows the developer to see what is inside his program at the current execution point or at the moment when the program crashed. The debugger features are described using as an example one of the most popular and widely used debuggers, GDB – GNU Debugger, provided by Free Software Foundation. In order to cover all the requirements of an embedded system, the chapter presents in the following how to design a debug agent that fits into our special target ...
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