GDB and 64 bit

[Kevin Buettner]

On Jan 15, 11:11am, ccroswhite@get2chip.com wrote:

> I am trying to get gdb to understand 64 bit applications.  I can not
> compile gdb with a configuration option (that is configure
> --host=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8).  So I have gone in and replaced gcc with
> gcc -m64 and ld with ld -64 (Solaris ld).   gdb will now open the
> executable, however, it will not break and I have seen it print out
> variables in both 64 bit and 32 bit.  I am not exactly sure why it is
> doing both 1:) printing out 64 and 32 bit code and 2:) why it will not
> break.

Are the applications that you're debugging 32-bit or 64-bit?

Could you provide more detail (i.e, a cut and paste of a sample GDB
session) showing problems 1 and 2 above?

Thanks,

Kevin