From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1650 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2008 15:12:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 1642 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Aug 2008 15:12:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:11:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 23721 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2008 15:11:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO macbook-2.local) (stan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 16 Aug 2008 15:11:34 -0000 Message-ID: <48A6EE20.80606@codesourcery.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:51:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mario Emmenlauer CC: gdb@sourceware.org, rj@surtec.com Subject: Re: gdb supported on powerpc-apple-darwin ? References: <48A6E7E9.3070004@emmenlauer.de> In-Reply-To: <48A6E7E9.3070004@emmenlauer.de> 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: 2008-08/txt/msg00200.txt.bz2 Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > it seems a rather trivial question, however I could not easily find > the answer: is 'plain' FSF gdb supported on Mac OS X (ppc darwin)? No. The platform-specific bits necessary to make GDB work as a native debugger on Darwin are rather complicated, and have never been gotten to work in FSF GDB. (I got partway there once, tree is still on my disk somewhere.) You should be able to build cross debuggers targeting embedded systems though, I do that regularly. Stan