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Re: [RFC] The never ending 32-bit vs. 64-bit blues


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.


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