From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: toon.diels@philips.com Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: problem with cross-dev gdb Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:29:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010918092825.A29850@nevyn.them.org> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00148.html On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:44:22PM +0200, toon.diels@philips.com wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > thank you for the tip. I have evaluated already a new snapshot but it turned out into thesame segmentation faults > I encountered with gdb5.0 (with several patches for MIPS support). The segmentation faults appear to be caused on the > host and not on the target. (when turning on debug remote before setting a breakpoint, no data transfers are visible to or from the target > , only a segmentation error on the host). > > For my target I have build a mipsel-linux-toolchain based on a recent SGI-tarball: GCC3.0-GLIBC-2.2.3-BINUTILS2.11.90. > This toolchain is even newer then the one I am using on my host: GCC2.95.2-GLIBC-2.XX-BINUTILS2.10.91 > Is it possible that the host-target toolchain difference (especially glibc) prevent gdb to operate correct in cross-dev mode? > > I have already been debugging the native gdb built for target mipsel-linux with another host debugger without finding real pointers > to the problem. Do you have some debugging tips? Not really. It works perfectly well for me, using both serial and TCP debugging. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer