OpenEuphoria

Re: exu not working

• Posted by Travis Beaty <t_beaty at mchsi.com> Feb 08, 2003
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My results, for what it's worth, on Mandrake 9.0 with Euphoria 2.3 
public domain edition:

[travis@12-218-230-127 travis]$ cd programs/euphoria/bin
[travis@12-218-230-127 bin]$ gdb ./exu
GNU gdb 5.2.1-2mdk (Mandrake Linux)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...(no debugging 
symbols found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/travis/programs/euphoria/bin/exu
warning: shared library handler failed to enable breakpoint

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x400012e0 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
[travis@12-218-230-127 bin]$ file ./exu
./exu: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
statically linked, stripped
[travis@12-218-230-127 bin]$

Travis Beaty
Mason City, Iowa.



jbrown1050 at hotpop.com wrote:

>
>On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:46:03PM -0000, tubby.toast at ntlworld.com wrote:
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>>>"gdb exu", the last resort (gdb is oriented to C and asm programmers),
>>>      
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>>might
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>>>tell us more about the problem however.
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>>Hmmm just had a play with this;  it's way over my head!
>>
>>chris.
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>Hmm ... well I'll give it a go then.
>
><transcript>
>$ gdb ./exu
>GNU gdb 4.17.0.11 with Linux support
>Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
>
>"/home/jbrown105/./exu": not in executable format: File format not recognized
>
>(gdb) quit
>$ file ./exu
>./exu: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, statically linked,
>stripped
>$
></transcript>
>
>Ah, its statically linked. That means you don't need ncurses to be installed at
>all to use it (or glibc for that matter). Heh.
>
>However, a staticly linked exu can't be used in gdb it seems. My version of
>exu is rather old, but since its the same size as Chris's, I'd assume that
>Chris
>has a staticly linked exu as well. RC, can you provide a dynamicly linked exu
>for us perhaps?
>
>jbrown
>
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