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+@c
+@c COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-1998.
+@c On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
+@c All rights reserved.
+@c
+@c $Id$
+@c
+
+@chapter Introduction
+
+GDB 4.17 is a source-level symbolic debugger for RTEMS environment.
+This version is an extension of GNU GDB version 4.17, adapted for the debugging
+of RTEMS applications in a heterogeneous host-target environment.
+
+This paper documents @b{only} the RTEMS/GDB extensions to GNU
+GDB 4.17, as well as its use in the RTEMS environment. The reader is assumed
+to be familiar with GNU GDB.
+