From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15280 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2006 18:22:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 15270 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Dec 2006 18:22:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from alnrmhc11.comcast.net (HELO alnrmhc11.comcast.net) (206.18.177.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:22:13 +0000 Received: from [192.168.50.233] (ottens-gw.customer.alter.net?[63.81.56.182]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20061227182210b1100la01ge>; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:22:10 +0000 Message-ID: <4592BAA6.2030503@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:22:00 -0000 From: Barry deFreese User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis , tschwinge@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org Subject: Re: gdbserver for GNU/Hurd References: <20061223111022.GD16426@fencepost.gnu.org> <200612231531.kBNFVtg3032073@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20061223212245.GA1091@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20061223212245.GA1091@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2006-12/txt/msg00214.txt.bz2 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)