[Gdb] Remote debugging with gdbserver

[oliver.schlenker]

Hello,

 

I'm currently using gdb together with gdbserver to debug linux processes

written in C on a remote system. Doing this, I run in the following two

problems :

 

1.

From time to time gdbserver is reporting

gdb:Wrong sized register packet (expected 624 bytes, got 352)

 

2.

When remote debugging, I'm not able to view the contents of any uninitalized global variable correct. The contents of uninitalized global variables are

shown (with gdb-command print) as zero. Even the whole memory range where the

uninitalized global variables are stored is shown as if it's filled with zero-

bytes only. The global variables in the running process are definitly not

zero, as a printf in the process itself is easily confirming.

Initialized global variables however (like char *Errortext = "Error No. %d\n")

are shown with correct values in gdb. 

 

Any ideas regarding this behaviour are very welcome.

 

 

 

Oliver