Re: Debugging on v8plus

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:10:39AM -0800, Olatunji Ruwase wrote:
> 
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote On 01/24/06 08:29,:
> > 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,
> 
> I m interested in doing this work. Can I contact you directly with
> questions I might while doing this ?

No, please don't contact developers off-list - use the mailing list,
that's what it's for.  I don't know much about either SPARC or Solaris.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery