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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

debugging using Nios2-ide and gdb

Hi, I am trying to debug the kernel using the instructions here:

http://nioswiki.com/operatingsystems/uclinux/nios2ide (http://nioswiki.com/operatingsystems/uclinux/nios2ide)

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Unable to set temporary breakpoint in main.

Reason: Target request failed: Function "main" not defined..

Continue?[/b]

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I&#39;ve tried adding the ../linux2.6 directory to the source search paths, but that didn&#39;t help. I can&#39;t actually access the linux source with this project setup in the IDE.

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    please set break point at start_kernel instead of main, which was removed.

    - Hippo