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Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange SEGVproblem]]
- To: Tim Mooney <mooney at dogbert dot cc dot ndsu dot nodak dot edu>
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange SEGVproblem]]
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:51:30 +1000
- CC: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0004280042350.13481-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu>
Tim Mooney wrote:
>
> In regard to: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange...:
>
> >Tim Mooney wrote:
> >
> >> >so IRIX 6.x is a known problem. If someone comes up with a simple small
> >> >self contained patch in time for gdb-5.0 then it might go in. I suspect
> >> >that getting it sorted in 5.1 is a better option. This is consistent
> >> >with FreeBSD and a few other platforms.
> >>
> >> Sounds good. I was just surprised to see that recent cvs wouldn't build,
> >> sinc 4.18 will build fine on the same platform. Looking through the code
> >> I can see there have been a lot of changes, though, so it's not such a
> >> surprise.
> >
> >Sigh. If GDB-4.18 built on IRIX 6.x but GDB-5.0 doesn't we've got a
> >regression - I didn't know it had built before :-( In the other cases
> >they either never built or the OS underwent significant changes.
>
> That's why I mentioned it -- I thought it was kind of odd.
>
> I just built 4.18 on mips-sgi-irix6.5 (6.5.3), to make sure I wasn't
> misremembering anything. I'm not. It builds out of the box, with the vendor
> compiler, in `n32' (new 32-bit ABI) mode. I used the following CFLAGS with
> the MIPSPro 7.2.1 C compiler:
>
> -n32 -O2 -g3 -xansi -OPT:Olimit=3000
FYI,
The GDB 5.0 branch should now build using _GCC_ on IRIX 6.5. GCC is
freely available from the SGI web site (or so I'm led to believe :-).
enjoy,
Andrew