gdb & 64-bit Solaris - does it work?

Chuck Aude caude@legato.com
Fri Jul 18 16:02:00 GMT 2003


Has anyone had any luck getting any version of gdb to work on a 64-bit 
Solaris 7 binary built with gcc 3.2? I have tried both gdb-5.3 and 
gdb-6.0 (last night's CVS image) and end up with the same "Cannot insert 
breakpoint" error. Searching the gdb mailing list, reveals many other 
people getting the same error and the gdb bug database has several bugs 
related to this.

Does gdb support debugging 64-bit Solaris binaries or am I trying to 
make it do something it can't do?

Here's another example of the error:

[caude@phobos]$ more hello.c
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
         printf ("Hello World\n");
}
[caude@phobos]$ gcc-3.2 -m64 -g -o hello hello.c
[caude@phobos]$ gdb64-5.3 hello
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.7"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/jupiter8/caude/hello
Hello World

Program exited with code 014.
(gdb) br main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x860: file hello.c, line 6.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/jupiter8/caude/hello
Warning:
Cannot insert breakpoint 1.
Error accessing memory address 0x860: I/O error.
The same program may be running in another process.
(gdb) q
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y



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