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Re: Debugging 64bit x86 programs on Solaris


> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:09:14 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:42:25AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > That said, in principle it should be possible to support debugging
> > 64-bit executables with a 32-bit GDB on Solaris (which isn't possible
> > on Linux).  This might need some changes in the code though.
> 
> It would be easy to make it possible on Linux, though - at least PPC
> and MIPS already support this though GDB does not yet take advantage
> of it.  Richard Henderson posted patches for the PPC bits a while ago.

Yup, I should have said x86 Linux.


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