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RE: GDB & FreeBSD
- To: "Mark Kettenis" <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>,<gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: GDB & FreeBSD
- From: "Daniel Berlin" <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:17:16 -0400
IMHO, yes.
BTW, all you needed to do was take the patches from the FreeBSD cvs tree,
and make a few small changes, and you'd be golden.
I lost them when my HD crashed a few weeks ago, unfortunately.
Also realize FreeBSD 4.0 is ELF, while 3.4 is a.out.
--Dan
>
> Hi All,
>
> I spent some time on reviving GDB on FreeBSD. Not too difficult since
> it turns out that I can re-use a lot of code from the NetBSD port
> (thanks J.T. :-)).
>
> However, in doing so, I've probably killed support for older FreeBSD
> systems (I suspect that the same happened with NetBSD). From looking
> at the FreeBSD CVS tree, FreeBSD 2.2 (which was released in March
> 1997) and up should be fine (I did my work on FreeBSD 3.4). On older
> systems GDB will not compile.
>
> Is this acceptable?
>
> Mark