Please report bugs by subscribing to the OpenOCD mailing list and posting a message with your report:

openocd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Also, please check the bug database to see if a ticket for the bug has already been opened. You might be asked to open such a ticket, or to update an existing ticket with more data.

http://bugs.openocd.org/

To minimize work for OpenOCD developers, you should try to include all of the information listed below. If you feel that some of the items below are unnecessary for a clear bug report, you may leave them out; likewise, feel free to include additional information that may be important.

Target PCB/board description
Configuration scripts
OpenOCD command line
List of commands issued or GDB operations performed
Expected result
Actual result
Logs using debug_level 3 (or with '-d 3' on the command line)
If the report is for a regression:
- Include logs for both working and broken versions.
- Find the precise version that caused the regression by binary search. You can use "git bisect" to expedite this binary search: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html

If possible, please develop and attach a patch that helps to expose or solve the reported problem. See the HACKING file for information about that process.

Attach all files directly to your posting. The mailing list knows to transform attachments to links, but attachments must be less than 300KB in total.

Obtaining Crash Backtraces

If OpenOCD is crashing, there are two very effective things you can do to improve your chances of getting help on the development mailing list.

Try to reproduce the problem using the dummy JTAG interface to allow other developers to replicate your problem robustly and use GDB to get a trace:

: % OPENOCDSRC/configure --enable-dummy ...

% openocd -f interface/dummy.cfg -f target/xxx.cfg

=> SEGFAULT

% gdb --args openocd ....

(gdb) run

(gdb) bt

=> here a stack trace is dumped.

Running and Debugging In-Tree

To run or debug the in-tree executable (not recommended), you must use libtool to set up the correct shared library paths:

libtool gdb --args openocd ....

or the more pedantic (and forward-compatible):

libtool --mode=execute gdb --args openocd ....