From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6178 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2006 18:19:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 6167 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jan 2006 18:19:24 -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 18:19:22 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F1SlC-0005kI-Ua; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:19:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:28:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Olatunji Ruwase Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Debugging on v8plus Message-ID: <20060124181918.GA22064@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olatunji Ruwase , gdb@sourceware.org References: <43D652B5.5060302@Sun.COM> <20060124162949.GA18951@nevyn.them.org> <43D66D9F.5020408@Sun.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D66D9F.5020408@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/msg00241.txt.bz2 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