From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31229 invoked by alias); 23 Dec 2006 21:22:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 31221 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Dec 2006 21:22:53 -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; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:22:48 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GyEKL-0000Ie-DB; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:22:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:22:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: tschwinge@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org Subject: Re: gdbserver for GNU/Hurd Message-ID: <20061223212245.GA1091@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , tschwinge@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org References: <20061223111022.GD16426@fencepost.gnu.org> <200612231531.kBNFVtg3032073@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200612231531.kBNFVtg3032073@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-12/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:31:55PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Has anyone ever worked on porting the GDB distribution's gdbserver to > > GNU/Hurd? > > I'm pretty sure the answer to that question is no. As far as I know. > > In case you don't know: this would allow for debugging programs on > > GNU/Hurd systems using a cross debugger running on another system (e.g. a > > non GNU/Hurd one). This is of advantage if you're cross compiling and > > then don't have to copy the source files to the target system for using > > gdb locally on there. > > But it'd be difficult to have access to all the advanced features a > native GNU/Hurd GDB offers. It shouldn't be hard to add anything necessary to the remote protocol and if anyone was interested in working on it I'd be glad to offer advice. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery