From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16231 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2006 22:32:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 16221 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jan 2006 22:32:52 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from brmea-mail-4.Sun.COM (HELO brmea-mail-4.sun.com) (192.18.98.36) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:32:51 +0000 Received: from phys-mpk-1 ([129.146.11.81]) by brmea-mail-4.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k0QMWnuf018970 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:32:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from conversion-daemon.mpk-mail1.sfbay.sun.com by mpk-mail1.sfbay.sun.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.24 (built Dec 19 2003)) id <0ITQ006010MMHF@mpk-mail1.sfbay.sun.com> (original mail from Olatunji.Ruwase@Sun.COM) for gdb@sourceware.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:32:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sun.COM (ruwase.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.78.63]) by mpk-mail1.sfbay.sun.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.24 (built Dec 19 2003)) with ESMTP id <0ITQ00HUO17JF7@mpk-mail1.sfbay.sun.com>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:30:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:31:00 -0000 From: Olatunji Ruwase Subject: Re: Debugging on v8plus In-reply-to: <200601241936.k0OJa0fW021986@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Olatunji.Ruwase@Sun.COM Message-id: <43D94D9F.50504@Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20041214 References: <43D652B5.5060302@Sun.COM> <200601241936.k0OJa0fW021986@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00287.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis wrote On 01/24/06 11:36,: >>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:15:49 -0800 >>From: Olatunji Ruwase >> >>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 >