From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2211 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2006 16:42:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 396 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jan 2006 16:29:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:29:52 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F1R3F-0004wA-UE; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:29:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:11:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Olatunji Ruwase Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Debugging on v8plus Message-ID: <20060124162949.GA18951@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olatunji Ruwase , gdb@sourceware.org References: <43D652B5.5060302@Sun.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D652B5.5060302@Sun.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:15:49AM -0800, Olatunji Ruwase wrote: > Hello, > I imagine that this issue has been discussed in the past, but I ve been > unable to find much information searching through the archives. So > pardon me for asking, but I m curious as to why there is no gdb support > for debugging v8plus applications (i.e 64 bit registers in a 32 bit > environment). Is it because this isnt important to users ?. Or is there > some other technical reason ?. > In other words will a patch for this support be accepted into gdb ?. Presumably it would be, if someone was interested in implementing it (along with filing an FSF copyright assignment). -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery