From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10026 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2004 16:54:41 -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 10019 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2004 16:54:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2004 16:54:40 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F45D2B92; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:54:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <402D014E.4090609@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:54:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: brobecker@gnat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Time for a HP/PA hackathon? References: <20040213162914.9DD2D4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00344.txt.bz2 > ac> - Does it start? > ac> There's a good chance GDB will panic during initialization ... > > It starts, but it can't read executable files. > > ac> - If it starts, the output from: > ac> (gdb) maint print architecture architecture > ac> (gdb) shell grep -i deprecated architecture > > See the typescript below. > > ac> - what happens when: > ac> ./gdb .../advance > > "not in executable format: Bad value" Um, in a word, "huh?" :-) I think that's caused by something else. Looking at the message: if (!bfd_check_format (so->abfd, bfd_object)) { error ("\"%s\": not in executable format: %s.", name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ())); } which shouldn't be affected by this change. sigh. Andrew