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@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.