Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:50:16 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GDB - do we dare? Message-ID: <20030713165016.GA77613@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200307131557.h6DFvYRD098297@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> References: <20030711225002.GA71126@ns1.xcllnt.net> <200307121105.h6CB50l1047073@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <20030712203930.GA5446@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200307131557.h6DFvYRD098297@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 05:57:34PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > A1 If having support for amd64 is a major reason for doing a new > > import of GDB, importing the upcoming GDB 6.0 would make more sense > > to me. > > No ia64 is the major reason :-) > > Hmm. I think I just crashed pluto1 trying to get it to run the GDB > testsuite on a not-yet-fully-functional GDB port. Currently RSE is > giving me some headaches. Yeah, this is known (both the crashes and the headache :-) I was working on that (the crashes), but now need to make ia64 functional again. The gcc import left us dead in the water. Our crt1.c is broken. > > A2 I'm volunteering to help out here. > > Cool, thanks. Shall we just create a p4 branch and start hacking? > > Oh dear, do I need to learn another version control system? Yes, preferrably. Using a p4 branch allows us to track the gdb 6 branch while we prepare for the import. It's a convenient place for people to grab the WIP. > > better on FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/Alpha now. Now that I've got it > > working on FreeBSD/amd64, I'll give FreeBSD/ia64 a shot. > > We probably need to talk then, because the ptrace interface needs > to be fleshed out and I planned to do that while porting gdb. > > Probably. The current layout of `struct reg' and `struct fpreg' is a > bit ... messy. It is not. It is actually pretty neat. Incomplete maybe, but neat. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030713165016.GA77613>