From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Suggest fixing your target for gdbserver(1)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060926153331.GA15759@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060926152715.GA5860@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:27:15PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> x86_64 defaults (by bfd matching) to target "i386" instead of its native
> "i386:x86_64". Therefore if you connect to gdbserver(1) without any `file' or
> `set architecture' command before the communication will crash on a different
> expected register sizes.
>
> As implementing architecture negotiation is complicated due to gdbserver(1) not
> being aware of bfd-compatible name of its target and also it may be also
> unclear to automatically change the target while working remotely it is just
> suggesting to double-check which architecture you are using.
As a matter of fact I'm implementing automatic detection of 32-bit vs
64-bit targets based on the size of register responses right now.
I hope to have it done later in the week, though it will be tricky
to break it apart from the rest of my patches for merging.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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2006-09-26 15:27 Jan Kratochvil
2006-09-26 15:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-10-02 15:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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