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From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb darwin target on Linux host?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBF22FB.9010303@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101020152407.3F76031367@nx.neverkill.us>

  On 10/20/10 8:24 AM, Peter Steiner wrote:
> ok - but the packaged Apple darwin gdb (shipped with my install) CAN
> read the native binaries. So, what is the difference? Another/patched
> libbfd used by Apple?
>
> (e.g. http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/gdb/gdb-1469.tar.gz
> gdb version is 6.3.50.20050815-cvs)

"Patched" is, shall we say, an understatement. :-)

> however I do not want to debug natively (or my question here would be
> pointless), I want to cross-debug using a Linux host.

So, uh, once you get the executable read in, how exactly do you expect 
to remote-control execution from Linux-land?  Is there a Darwin 
GDBserver or equivalent that I don't know of?  There is a kernel 
debugging setup, but it's not useful for apps.

Stan


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-20 13:53 Peter Steiner
2010-10-20 14:20 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-10-20 14:26   ` Pedro Alves
2010-10-20 14:41     ` Tristan Gingold
2010-10-20 14:50       ` Pedro Alves
2010-10-20 14:52         ` Nathan Froyd
2010-10-20 15:09           ` Pedro Alves
     [not found]           ` <20101020150949.4841131366@nx.neverkill.us>
2010-10-20 15:15             ` Peter Steiner
     [not found] ` <20101020143016.6BE9131366@nx.neverkill.us>
2010-10-20 14:42   ` Peter Steiner
2010-10-20 15:12     ` Tristan Gingold
     [not found]     ` <20101020151257.25F2D31366@nx.neverkill.us>
2010-10-20 15:24       ` Peter Steiner
2010-10-20 17:12         ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2010-10-21  7:49           ` Tristan Gingold
2010-10-20 15:35       ` Peter Steiner
     [not found]       ` <1287588922.28107.281.camel@hp>
2010-10-20 15:45         ` Paul Starzetz

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