Rapid development of a source-level debugger for PowerPC microprocessors
Farooq Butt · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1994
As design cycle times in the computer industry decrease, it becomes increasingly important to have a fast, effective software-development environment quickly available so that software may be developed for emergent microprocessors well before general availability. This paper discusses how gdb (an industry-standard source-level debugger) was paired with a software microprocessor simulator for the Motorola PowerPC 601* and PowerPC 603* microprocessors in order to provide a seamless and highly productive compile-edit-debug environment from the time that the PowerPC instruction set was first announced through general availability.