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authorDhananjay Balan <mb.dhananjay@gmail.com>2013-08-23 09:55:07 +0530
committerChris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org>2014-08-25 09:52:41 +1000
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-rtems-gdb
-=========
+# RTEMS GDB
-GDB extenstions to RTEMS.
+GDB extensions to help accelarting RTEMS debugging.
+
+## Usage
+ - Clone the git repo
+ - Fire up gdb and use source command
+```
+$ sparc-rtems4.11-gdb
+
+GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.1
+Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
+and "show warranty" for details.
+This GDB was configured as "--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=sparc-rtems4.11".
+For bug reporting instructions, please see:
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
+(gdb) source path/to/clone/__init__.py
+RTEMS GDB Support loaded
+(gdb)
+```
+
+## Commands Implemented
+ - `rtems object` : Prints rtems objects by ID
+ - [rtems index subcommands](Subcommands)
+
+## Developer documentation
+We have a document to get started with [pretty printer development](Writing-a-pretty-printer).
-See [this blog post for instructions](http://dbalan.github.io/blog/2013/06/23/debugging-rtems-with-gdb/)