Re: gdbserver for GNU/Hurd

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:31:55PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>   
>>> Has anyone ever worked on porting the GDB distribution's gdbserver to
>>> GNU/Hurd?
>>>       
>> I'm pretty sure the answer to that question is no.
>>     
>
> As far as I know.
>
>   
>>> In case you don't know: this would allow for debugging programs on
>>> GNU/Hurd systems using a cross debugger running on another system (e.g. a
>>> non GNU/Hurd one).  This is of advantage if you're cross compiling and
>>> then don't have to copy the source files to the target system for using
>>> gdb locally on there.
>>>       
>> But it'd be difficult to have access to all the advanced features a
>> native GNU/Hurd GDB offers.
>>     
>
> It shouldn't be hard to add anything necessary to the remote protocol
> and if anyone was interested in working on it I'd be glad to offer
> advice.
>   
I'm looking at this just for "fun".  Should we add our own hurd-i386-foo 
files or gnu-i386-foo, or try to shoehorn our stuff into using something 
like linux-i386-low?

Thanks,

Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)