From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24291 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2012 16:42:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 24282 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Apr 2012 16:42:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (HELO mail-pz0-f54.google.com) (209.85.210.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:42:35 +0000 Received: by dady13 with SMTP id y13so4995730dad.13 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.218.38 with SMTP id pd6mr9168304pbc.141.1334421755131; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pebble.twiddle.net ([173.160.232.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id qz7sm12184360pbc.16.2012.04.14.09.42.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F89A8F7.9090701@twiddle.net> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:42:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Weil CC: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcg/i386: Use GDB JIT debugging interface only for hosts with ELF References: <1333813984-1516-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <1333813984-1516-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: 2012-04/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 On 04/07/2012 11:53 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Not all i386 / x86_64 hosts use ELF. > Ask the compiler whether ELF is used. > > On w64, gdb crashes when ELF_HOST_MACHINE is defined. Hmm. Because the other way this could be addressed is to fix gdb. (1) it shouldn't crash and (2) it could support elf alongside pe-coff fairly easily i'd imagine; just a matter of enabling that bfd backend. Shall we ask gdb maintainers? r~