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Re: Progress on SPARC
- From: Ben Collins <bcollins at debian dot org>
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:31:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: Progress on SPARC
- References: <200311022104.hA2L4mit081014@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:04:48PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Thanks to Ben Collins and the Debian project, I've completed the
> 64-bit GNU/Linux SPARC support. In order to debug 64-bit code you'll
> need to compile GDB with a compiler that produces 64-bit code. If you
> use a 32-bit compiler and configure for sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu
> anyway, you'll probably end up with a debugger that doesn't work.
> I'll see if I can fix that later.
>
> There is also some support for 64-bit Solaris SPARC on the branch now,
> but I don't know if it'll work.
>
> I still have to revicve NetBSD (both 32-bit and 64-bit) before I can
> merge this stuff into mainline.
Does the 64-bit gdb support debugging 32-bit binaries? I ask, because
Dave Miller's work getting GDB to support 64-bit sparc binaries did in
fact support debugging 32-bit binaries.
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