RE: Can't get cross debugging to work

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Alves [mailto:palves@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:57 PM
> To: Marc Khouzam
> Cc: 'gdb@sourceware.org'
> Subject: Re: Can't get cross debugging to work
> 
> On 03/13/2012 07:47 PM, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> 
> > Run:
> >> > ./gdb/gdbserver/gdbserver :9999 ~/myBin.64
> 
> 
> > Run:
> >> > ./gdb/gdb ~/myBin.32
> 
> 
> Here's the problem.  You should be doing:
> 
> ./gdb/gdb ~/myBin.64
> 
> > warning: Selected architecture i386 is not compatible with 
> reported target architecture i386:x86-64
> > warning: Architecture rejected target-supplied description
> 
> This means that GDB thinks the architecture is i386 (because 
> you've gave it a 32-bit
> executable to debug), while gdbserver claims it is debugging 
> a x86-64 program.

And it works!  Thanks for the quick answer.

I'd like to see the --enable-targets feature explained better
in the documentation.  I'll try to find time and write a patch,
but I don't understand much of it, so it will be to get the ball 
rolling.

Thanks again!

Marc