[padb-users] Intel Compiler support on PADB?

[Ashley Pittman]

On 2 Dec 2010, at 18:10, Ashley Pittman wrote:

> On 2 Dec 2010, at 05:31, Jie Cai wrote:
> 
>> Dear Ashley,
>> 
>> PADB currently uses gdb to get stack trace. While we have quite a few pre-compiled programs with Intel compilers. For level 2 optimization (default) of Intel compilers, %ebp is often cleared and stored at other place. In this case, gdb has difficulty to trace the stack properly.
>> 
>> I am wondering will PADB utilize idb as an command line option in the short future ?
> 
> No, padb integrates quite closely with gdb so this would be a significant amount of work, in particular padb uses the "MI" interface to gdb which I don't believe idb emulates?

It turns out that idb does emulate the MI interface so there is every chance this should work.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=67877

I don't have the licences to test this but it should be fairly easy to test, you'll need to ensure that your shell sets the required PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH for idb but other than that it should be a simple change, if you do experiment with this let me know how you get on.

Ashley,

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Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.

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