From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: alexjb@transitive.com
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Debugging 64bit x86 programs on Solaris
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703302242.l2UMgPcc025150@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174938072.27206.99.camel@okra.transitives.com> (message from Alex Bennee on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:41:10 +0100)
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> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:27 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is 64 bit debugging on x86 Solaris broken? I've built the latest gdb
> > from CVS but it seems to have real trouble with 64bit programs or
> > reading core files:
>
> Just found it defaults to compiling a 32 bit app. Maybe the autoconf
> magic should default to 64bit for Solaris/x86?
We cannot do that; there are 32-bit Solaris/x86 systems out there.
That said, in principle it should be possible to support debugging
64-bit executables with a 32-bit GDB on Solaris (which isn't possible
on Linux). This might need some changes in the code though.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-26 19:27 Alex Bennee
2007-03-26 19:41 ` Alex Bennee
2007-03-30 22:42 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2007-03-31 13:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-03-31 14:14 ` Mark Kettenis
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