remote debugging

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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Brijesh Shukla wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can any body explain the remote debugging application in Linux.
> currently for testing purpose as simple case, I have chosen two i686
> Pentium machines with Linux
> installed on two systems. on system I am running gdb and in another
> system I am running gdb server. I did the following steps.
>
> Target:
>  gdbserver host:port program
>
>  //Now gdbserver has been started
>
> Host:
>
>  // I compiled the simple hello word program as    gcc -g program.c -o
> program
>  // copied the program into target system
>
>  gdb program
>  gdb> target remote host:port
>  gdb>
>
>  // connection established
>  gdb> load

You should not do that, gdbserver already loaded the program.
The rest of your problems may be related to this step.

>
>  // it is showing loading the sections, I m not sure the addresses from
> local machine or from target machine ( how can I verify ? in our
> case,sicne both machine
>  are same architecture and same OS)
>
>  I can set break point to main.
>
>  if I do step or next, I am getting the error message "cannot find
> bounds of current function"
>
>  if I do continue, I am getting the error message " program received
> SIGSEGV, segmentation fault"
>
> can anybody tell me where is the wrong ?
>
> Is there anything's need to be take care while building the gdb in one
> machine. ?  currently I am using the default gdb installed in machine
> due to both machine are same architecture.
>
> Regards
> Brijesh Shukla
>

Thanks,

Aleksey