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Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange SEGVproblem]]


In regard to: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange...:

>Tim Mooney wrote:
>> 
>> In regard to: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange...:
>> 
>> >Tim Mooney wrote:
>> >
>> >> >so IRIX 6.x is a known problem.  If someone comes up with a simple small
>> >> >self contained patch in time for gdb-5.0 then it might go in.  I suspect
>> >> >that getting it sorted in 5.1 is a better option.  This is consistent
>> >> >with FreeBSD and a few other platforms.
>> >>
>> >> Sounds good.  I was just surprised to see that recent cvs wouldn't build,
>> >> sinc 4.18 will build fine on the same platform.  Looking through the code
>> >> I can see there have been a lot of changes, though, so it's not such a
>> >> surprise.
>> >
>> >Sigh.  If GDB-4.18 built on IRIX 6.x but GDB-5.0 doesn't we've got a
>> >regression - I didn't know it had built before :-(  In the other cases
>> >they either never built or the OS underwent significant changes.
>> 
>> That's why I mentioned it -- I thought it was kind of odd.
>> 
>> I just built 4.18 on mips-sgi-irix6.5 (6.5.3), to make sure I wasn't
>> misremembering anything.  I'm not.  It builds out of the box, with the vendor
>> compiler, in `n32' (new 32-bit ABI) mode.  I used the following CFLAGS with
>> the MIPSPro 7.2.1 C compiler:
>> 
>>         -n32 -O2 -g3 -xansi -OPT:Olimit=3000
>
>Well, so far I've so far only found a 6.3 machine (using GCC) and that
>was ok :-(
>No one has come forward with patches so ``fixed in 5.1'' is looking like
>it.

That sounds reasonable.  Thanks for your effort on this and the original
thread that evolved into this.  :-)  gdb is an awesome piece of software.
Hopefully I'll have the time (and abilities up to the task!) to contribute
to its continued improvement.

Tim
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