From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15400 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2005 22:52:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 15390 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Nov 2005 22:52:53 -0000 Received: from webmail.streamline-computing.com (HELO webmail.streamline-computing.com) (82.133.39.164) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:52:53 +0000 Received: from [82.15.10.199] (helo=cpc2-oxfd8-3-0-cust199.oxfd.cable.ntl.com) by webmail.streamline-computing.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1EZFnQ-0007QL-Kp; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:49:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] The never ending 32-bit vs. 64-bit blues From: David Lecomber To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <200511072245.jA7MjnIL005849@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> References: <200511072245.jA7MjnIL005849@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:52:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1131405225.22433.1.camel@cpc2-oxfd8-3-0-cust199.oxfd.cable.ntl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00182.txt.bz2 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.