From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 09:50:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEF037B41B for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:50:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE83443F93 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6DGoHv1084880; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6DGoHE8077665; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6DGoGVd077664; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:50:16 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Mark Kettenis Message-ID: <20030713165016.GA77613@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030711225002.GA71126@ns1.xcllnt.net> <200307121105.h6CB50l1047073@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <20030712203930.GA5446@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200307131557.h6DFvYRD098297@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307131557.h6DFvYRD098297@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GDB - do we dare? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:50:21 -0000 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