From: Andrew Haley via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB / AArch64 / MacOS
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:50:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd80dde1-a0c1-8f1e-a9f3-36712046e952@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b94a56cd-fc77-f79a-4a37-6b2eca7ec7a4@FreeBSD.org>
On 7/19/23 20:29, John Baldwin wrote:
> I think you are probably better off starting with the x86 darwin target
> since it uses Mach ports for debugging rather than ptrace. Probably the
> architecture-specific parts you would need (dealing with different register
> sets, etc.) is fairly small.
Thanks, good point. The AArch64/MacOS calling convention is a bit of a nightmare, in
that it packs args into registers in a weird way.
--
Andrew Haley (he/him)
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
https://keybase.io/andrewhaley
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-20 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-19 13:19 Andrew Haley via Gdb
2023-07-19 17:02 ` John Baldwin
2023-07-19 17:05 ` Paul Koning via Gdb
2023-07-19 19:02 ` Andrew Haley via Gdb
2023-07-19 19:29 ` John Baldwin
2023-07-20 8:50 ` Andrew Haley via Gdb [this message]
2023-07-23 19:51 ` Tom Tromey
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