From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10007 invoked by alias); 20 May 2003 20:52:42 -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 9946 invoked from network); 20 May 2003 20:52:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.131) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 May 2003 20:52:39 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11192B2F; Tue, 20 May 2003 16:52:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3ECA9587.4090407@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:52:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cgd@broadcom.com Cc: kevinb@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [WIP/RFC] MIPS registers overhaul References: <1030510002453.ZM3880@localhost.localdomain> <3EBD6131.30209@redhat.com> <1030514220025.ZM10373@localhost.localdomain> <3EC461C1.1080104@redhat.com> <1030516230550.ZM12582@localhost.localdomain> <1030517004052.ZM13153@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00374.txt.bz2 > At Sat, 17 May 2003 00:41:10 +0000 (UTC), "Kevin Buettner" wrote: > >> Unfortunately, it isn't reasonable to use an ABI-specific RDA to debug >> an application which uses a different ABI. It might kind of, sort of >> work some of the time, but there are various things that won't work. >> You've just identified one of the problems. > > > BTW, because of this kind of problem, does it even make sense that > when talking to a mips64 kernel but using an o32 rda (or gdbserver > 8-), you'd use a "mips64" protocol? I.e., why wouldn't it just use > the 32-bit mips protocol, since from you're debugging a 32-bit binary > with a 32-bit debugging daemon... Ignoring the FP registers, I think it does make sense. o32 code does run on a 64 bit ISA. Who is GDB to decide what the ISA should be. Andrew