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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
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To: Christian Joensson <christian@j-son.org>
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Subject: Re: build/955: build failure with GDB-5.3: sparc-nat.c structure
 redefinition errors with sparc64-linux, glibc-2.2.x
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Christian Joensson wrote:

> 
> uhm, a 64-bit gdb is not that easy to accomplish, I guess, but
> there'll be one in a future Aurora SPARC Linux, a development
> gdb64-5.2-ish src rpm is available:
> ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/scratch

A 64-bit gdb is definitely accomplish-able on Solaris.
As you point out, it's a requirement if one is to debug
64-bit apps.