From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29770 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2007 13:09:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 29754 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Mar 2007 13:09:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from return.false.org (HELO return.false.org) (66.207.162.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:09:17 +0100 Received: from return.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885184B267; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:09:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (dsl093-172-095.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.172.95]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC074B262; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:09:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HXdKU-0002x1-8L; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:09:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:09:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: alexjb@transitive.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Debugging 64bit x86 programs on Solaris Message-ID: <20070331130914.GA11321@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , alexjb@transitive.com, gdb@sourceware.org References: <1174937257.27206.97.camel@okra.transitives.com> <1174938072.27206.99.camel@okra.transitives.com> <200703302242.l2UMgPcc025150@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703302242.l2UMgPcc025150@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14+cvs20070313 (2007-03-13) 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: 2007-03/txt/msg00349.txt.bz2 On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:42:25AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > 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. It would be easy to make it possible on Linux, though - at least PPC and MIPS already support this though GDB does not yet take advantage of it. Richard Henderson posted patches for the PPC bits a while ago. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery