Cross debugging on windows

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue Mar 17 14:37:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:57:43PM +0100, Roland Schwingel wrote:
> Hi....
>
> Just a simple question.
> Is it possible to cross debug from a 32bit gdb a 64bit application (both  
> running on windows)?
> In my special case this would be a 32bit cygwin gdb debugging a mingw64  
> 64bit application.
> I know the usual small glitches when debugging a mingw application from a 
> cygwin gdb.
> But beside of this: Is it possible?
>
> There is the configure option --enable-64-bit-bfd. I tried it but it  
> appears to not do the trick...

Usually only the other direction is possible.  The 32-bit debugging
interfaces don't permit a 64-bit target.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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