Re: Debugging on v8plus

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

Mark Kettenis wrote On 01/24/06 11:36,:
>>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:15:49 -0800
>>From: Olatunji Ruwase <Olatunji.Ruwase@Sun.COM>
>>
>>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 ?.
> 
> 
> I'm not aware of any people who develop such applications, let alone
> people who have requested this feature.
> 
The latest Sun studio compilers generate v8plus by default. So I expect
that interest in this feature should grow.
> 
>>Or is there some other technical reason ?.
> 
> 
> Not really except for the fact that it's a bit pointless to compicate
> gdb with code thyat nobody uses.  A possible technical reason would be
> that it should be possible for gdb to recognize such v8plus binaries.
> 
> 
>>In other words will a patch for this support be accepted into gdb ?.
> 
> 
> If you think there are people who actually need this and the copyright
> on the changes is assigned to the FSF, there's no reason for us not to
> accept it.
> 
Thanks I 'll work with this.

tunji

> Mark
>