Difference between revisions of "Orchard gdb cheatsheet"

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If you're not familiar with gdb, here are some commands to get you started.

To start GDB with Orchard, use these commands:

pi@raspberrypi ~/orchard-src/orchard $ gdb build/orchard.elf

Note that you're starting it in the same directory where you'd type make to build the executable.

Once GDB is started, you want to first execute

target remote localhost:3333

This establishes a connection between gdb and the orchard CPU.

To stop execution, hit ctrl-c. This will break you to a prompt.
'c' will continue execution
'mon reset' will reset the board
'b <function name>' will set a breakpoint at a given symbolic function name
'step' will step one source line, diving into functions
'next' will step one source line, treating functions as a single source line
'info reg' will give you the register dump
'info threads' will give you the status of all threads running on chibiOS
'bt' will give you the current backtrace
'l' will list the current source line that's running
'disas' will show you the assembly code of the current code that's running
'print <expression>' will print the value of a variable in the current stack frame

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 * 'mon reset' will reset the board
 * 'b <function name>' will set a breakpoint at a given symbolic function name
-* 'step' will step one source line
+* 'step' will step one source line, diving into functions
+* 'next' will step one source line, treating functions as a single source line
 * 'info reg' will give you the register dump
 * 'info threads' will give you the status of all threads running on chibiOS