GDB & FreeBSD

J.T. Conklin jtc@redback.com
Tue May 23 12:43:00 GMT 2000


Mark> I spent some time on reviving GDB on FreeBSD.  Not too difficult
Mark> since it turns out that I can re-use a lot of code from the
Mark> NetBSD port (thanks J.T. :-)).

Your welcome.

Mark> However, in doing so, I've probably killed support for older
Mark> FreeBSD systems (I suspect that the same happened with NetBSD).

If so, it wasn't the intent.  

The earliest machines I have are running 1.3.  If it turns out I broke
an earlier release, I'll fix it.  But I'm not planning on installing
NetBSD 0.9 just to check...  I'd rather spend the time to get i386/ELF
support into the tree.

        --jtc

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J.T. Conklin
RedBack Networks


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