ChorusOS 5.0 Debugging Guide

GDB and Insight for ChorusOS Systems

An application debugger enables you to see what is going on inside an application while it executes or what an application was doing at the moment it crashed. With a system debugger, it is possible to debug specific parts of an operating system. For ChorusOS operating systems, this includes the microkernel, the system drivers, the BSP, and certain supervisor actors. The GNU GDB Debugger for ChorusOS systems offers the following features:

Insight is a graphical user interface to GDB and provides access to most of GDB's capabilities. Insight is started by default when you start GDB.