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From: David Lecomber <david@allinea.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] The never ending 32-bit vs. 64-bit blues
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131405225.22433.1.camel@cpc2-oxfd8-3-0-cust199.oxfd.cable.ntl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511072245.jA7MjnIL005849@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:45 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> In the past we have had a lot of bug reports from people trying to
> debug 64-bit programs with a native 32-bit gdb.  As far as I know we
> don't support any native configuration that allows this.  I've never
> quite managed to come up with a satisfactory solution to deal with
> this.  Here's an attempt to deal with it by making configure complain.
> 

Hi Mark,

AIX's can only be run within a 32-bit debugger, even for 64-bit apps --
ie. their ptrace only be called in 32-bit mode.

Cheers
d.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-07 22:45 Mark Kettenis
2005-11-07 22:50 ` Jim Ingham
2005-11-07 22:52 ` David Lecomber [this message]
2005-11-07 22:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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