From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31530 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2009 18:48:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 31522 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2009 18:48:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate6.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate6.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:48:26 +0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate6.de.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7HIlFKU330744 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:47:15 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n7HIlFHC2629828 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:47:15 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n7HIlFQX000792 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:47:15 +0200 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id n7HIlDgR000786; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:47:13 +0200 Message-Id: <200908171847.n7HIlDgR000786@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:47:13 +0200 Subject: Re: Cell SDK GDB versus GNU GDB To: george@codeplay.com (George Russell) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:34:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" Cc: gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <4A8138AA.6060905@codeplay.com> from "George Russell" at Aug 11, 2009 11:23:54 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2009-08/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 George Russell wrote: > I am curious to know if the GNU gdb current versions have incorporated > the work on GDB done as a part of the Cell SDK. I would like to use > features of the MI interface of GDB present in GNU gdb, but absent in > the Cell SDK version. > > Does anyone know the status of a merge, if any? The bulk of the Cell SDK GDB features, in particular multi-architecture debugging support, have now been merged into mainline GDB. To the best of my knowledge, there are only two features that have not been merged: - Improved handling of multiple definitions of symbols of the same name: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-05/msg00190.html - SPU-specific GDB/MI extensions (-spu-info-...): http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00020.html [ In both cases, there was some concern in the community on whether the feature and/or the implementation is the right way to go, and then we didn't really follow up to bring the issues to a resolution. ] If you do not specifically depend on either of those features, current GDB mainline should work fine on Cell. If you have any problems getting it to work, please let me know ... Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com