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Re: gdbserver 7.1 unable to read registers
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Cc: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>, William Wagner <will_wagner at carallon dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:36:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: gdbserver 7.1 unable to read registers
- References: <201009241258.o8OCw8Sx024740@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Friday 24 September 2010 13:58:08, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Usually, gdbserver will inform GDB via the remote protocol about the
> set of registers supported on the platform, and GDB is supposed to
> automatically take that information into account.
>
> However, this requires that GDB is built to include XML support to
> parse this configuration information; if the expat libraries were
> not available when you built GDB, the configure process might have
> decided to build GDB without XML support instead ...
> Can you try rebuilding with the --with-expat configure option?
> This will cause the build to fail if XML support is not available.
Note that GDB issues a warning at connect time in that case:
"Can not parse XML target description; XML support was disabled at compile time"
--
Pedro Alves