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Re: GDB on SGI Irix 6.5
- To: dan at www dot cgsoftware dot com
- Subject: Re: GDB on SGI Irix 6.5
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 21:32:07 +0300
- CC: davea at quasar dot engr dot sgi dot com, ac131313 at cygnus dot com, jkingdon at engr dot sgi dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105171233470.12958-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:40:41 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Daniel Berlin <dan@www.cgsoftware.com>
> >
> > > We should support 64 bit dwarf2 already, for the most part.
> >
> > Since when?
> Well, since about august of last year or something.
My sources are much newer, so I should already have what you
describe.
> If you look at dwarf2read.c, you'll notice it handles offset sizes of both
> 4 and 8.
> read_initial_length takes care of figuring out which offset size we have.
Thanks, I will look deeper into this. I understand that David says a
failure with 64-bit Irix 6 executables is expected, though. However,
I wonder: you seem to say that your new reader does succeed to work on
Irix? Or was the 64-bit support you meant tested on platforms other
than Irix?