Random gdbserver question (x86)

Daniel Jacobowitz dan@codesourcery.com
Wed Mar 31 17:48:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:35:29AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Actually, I phrase it as a question even though I am pretty sure it
> is true.  My real question is "Why?".  It seems to me that if we just
> included amd64-linux-nat.o and amd64-*-tdep.o in the build, then
> 32-bit gdb should be able to debug 64-bit native apps.

I don't think the necessary kernel interfaces exist.  Or at least, we
aren't using them.  Compare the offsets in the two nat files.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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