Re: gdb-7.0 on osx

[Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>]

On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:04:20AM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Tobias Hahn wrote:
> > > Also, I have not yet managed to debug 32bit executables. I have  
> > > tried
> > > various build options (i386-apple-darwin10, i686-apple-darwin10) but
> > > none seemed to work. It always complains that it cannot read
> > > mach-o-i386 files.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on this one?
> >
> > I forgot to say: if you configure gdb for i386-darwin, it should  
> > work.
> >
> > Tristan.
>
> Tristan,
>   I never got around to testing that alternative. Does a build
> for i386-darwin properly load x86_64 binaries in gdb 7.0 or does
> it suffer the same issue as the x86_64 darwin build did for
> loading i386 binaries?

It should.  Before switching to Snow Leopard, I always built using the  
Apple gcc, which was an i386 gcc and
I checked it could handle both i386 and x86_64.  But you need to  
configure with --enable-64-bit-bfd
(important!).

Could you confirm ?

Tristan.