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Re: Debugging 64bit x86 programs on Solaris

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:42:25AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> That said, in principle it should be possible to support debugging
> 64-bit executables with a 32-bit GDB on Solaris (which isn't possible
> on Linux).  This might need some changes in the code though.

It would be easy to make it possible on Linux, though - at least PPC
and MIPS already support this though GDB does not yet take advantage
of it.  Richard Henderson posted patches for the PPC bits a while ago.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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