Re: Debugging on v8plus

[Olatunji Ruwase <Olatunji.Ruwase@Sun.COM>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote On 01/24/06 10:19,:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:10:39AM -0800, Olatunji Ruwase wrote:
> 
>>
>>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote On 01/24/06 08:29,:
>>
>>>On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:15:49AM -0800, Olatunji Ruwase wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>I imagine that this issue has been discussed in the past, but I ve been
>>>>unable to find much information searching through the archives. So
>>>>pardon me for asking, but I m curious as to why there is no gdb support
>>>>for debugging v8plus applications (i.e 64 bit registers in a 32 bit
>>>>environment). Is it because this isnt important to users ?. Or is there
>>>>some other technical reason ?.
>>>>In other words will a patch for this support be accepted into gdb ?.
>>>
>>>
>>>Presumably it would be, if someone was interested in implementing it
>>>(along with filing an FSF copyright assignment).
>>>
>>
>>Daniel,
>>
>>I m interested in doing this work. Can I contact you directly with
>>questions I might while doing this ?
> 
> 
> No, please don't contact developers off-list - use the mailing list,
> that's what it's for.  I don't know much about either SPARC or Solaris.
> 
Will do.

Thanks.
tunji