Re: 5.0 known issues 2000-02-16

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:55:57PM +1100, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > 
> > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > 
> > Andrew> GNU/Linux/i386:
> > 
> > Without my patch, gdb doesn't work at all when run on x86 Linux boxes
> > with older kernels (I still run 2.0.34).
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I belive JimB's bubbled this up to the top of his queue and made it one
> of the things try to get into 5.0

FWIW, the static gdb binary of gdb 4.17.0.1x compiled with glibc 2.1
and kernel 2.2 works on kernel >= 2.0, libc 5, glibc 2.0 and glibc
2.1. It should also work on glibc 2.2. Kernel and libc are detected at
the runtime. It will be nice that 5.0 can do the same.



H.J.