Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 19:08:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
cc: Dov Zandman <dov AT israel DOT sun DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gdb over serial port
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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> Run gdb and look at the targets it support.  2 of them are serial remote
> (remote and extended-remote).  So it looks like gdb itself can target over the
> serial port.  
> 
> Looking at info file it says that they provide gdb stubs that you must 
> link in to your program for it to work.  They are provided with the gdb
> source (don't know if DJs package has them).

This was made to work a long time ago, with DJGPP v1x.  The serial 
support needs to be re-ported to DJGPP v2, since the interrupt support 
has changed a lot.