From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2588 invoked by alias); 22 May 2005 17:17:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2563 invoked by uid 22791); 22 May 2005 17:17:01 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 May 2005 17:17:01 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DZu4O-0000Mf-UG; Sun, 22 May 2005 13:16:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:01:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Wu Zhou , Manoj Iyer , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] gdb.server testcases (resend) Message-ID: <20050522171656.GA1384@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Wu Zhou , Manoj Iyer , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <1116490026.428c492a8f3d8@imap.linux.ibm.com> <20050522171520.GA1223@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050522171520.GA1223@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00504.txt.bz2 On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:15:20PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Yes, this will not work. The correct way to handle this is to wait > until I have implemented the available target features proposal I've > posted on gdb@, and then I can make gdbserver inform GDB that 64-bit > registers are available so that it will expect them. > > This will require some surgery in GDB, I'm sure. The way MIPS > implements this is not very reliable. I should add: it won't work for LinuxThreads libthread_db-based debugging either. I don't know if it will work for NPTL, but I hope that it will. Some changes were made to libthread_db to support this. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC