Starting to debug

Now that you have gdbserver installed on the target and a cross GDB on the host you can start a debug session.

Connecting GDB and gdbserver

The connection between GDB and gdbserver can be through a network or a serial interface. In the case of a network connection, you launch gdbserver with the TCP port number to listen on and, optionally, an IP address to accept connections from. In most cases you don't care which IP address is going to connect, so you can just give the port number. In this example gdbserver waits for a connection on port 10000 from any host:

# gdbserver :10000 ./hello-world
Process hello-world created; pid = 103
Listening on port 10000

Next, start the copy of GDB from your toolchain, giving the same program as an argument so that GDB can load the symbol table:

$ arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb hello-world

In GDB, you use the command target remote to make the connection, giving the IP address or host name of the target and the port it is waiting on:

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