From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21059 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2009 16:59:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 21047 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Sep 2009 16:59:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bromo.med.uc.edu (HELO bromo.med.uc.edu) (129.137.3.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:58:58 +0000 Received: from bromo.med.uc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bromo.med.uc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B5AB2D53; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:58:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from howarth@localhost) by bromo.med.uc.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8UGwuTb007472; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:58:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:00 -0000 From: Jack Howarth To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Anirban Sinha , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [gdb-7.0] One week to the gdb-7.0 release! Message-ID: <20090930165856.GA7464@bromo.med.uc.edu> References: <20090923220907.GA5150@adacore.com> <20090930001332.GA5072@adacore.com> <20090930162038.GA7190@bromo.med.uc.edu> <20090930162949.GI5072@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090930162949.GI5072@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: 2009-09/txt/msg00335.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:29:49AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > I haven't tested the gdb 7.0 branch yet, but gdb trunk seems to be > > totally broken now on darwin even with the proposed patch... > > > > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-09/msg00430.html > > > > Now gdb errors out earlier and claims that darwin executables > > aren't valid executable files. Is anyone else seeing that on > > darwin? > > Again, you really have to qualify your statement with which version > of Darwin you are using. > > I believe that you are using Snow Leopard whereas things to be OK > on Leopard. The problem on Snow Leopard seems to be coming from > the fact that the method for giving GDB the priviledges it needs > in order to debug the program have changed. AdaCore is planning on > looking at that, eventually, but we just won't have the resources > to do so for at least a few weeks. > > -- > Joel Joel, This is under darwin10, however I am seeing a totally new error than before. A week ago gdb would report errors about opening the mach port. Now it seems to not even recognize the binary as being valid. So unless the error code in gdb was change, it seems to be a new bug. I'll post the exact error message tonight. Jack