gdb broken under linuxppc r5 tools

Daniel Jacobowitz drow at false.org
Tue Aug 3 01:50:34 EST 1999


On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:21:19AM -0400, kbhend wrote:
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> > Kevin, Franz, et.al,
> > 
> > Earlier this year, Metrowerks and I signed the copyright assignments
> > required by the FSF.  Beginning August 9, I will be starting work at
> > Cygnus as a GDB engineer.  One of the things that I'll work on is a
> > merge of my patches into the current gdb mainline.  It'll be my goal
> > to get a solid, usable gdb up and running on Linux/PPC again.
> 
> Congrats!  It is good to hear from you again!  We still miss you on the LinuxPPC
> JDK porting team!  Care to rejoin?!? :-)
> 
> As for gdb, something changed seriously between Paul's 2.2.1 kernel running on
> a R4.1 build (gdb was very very stable when debugging shared libs) and Paul's
> 2.2.10 kernel running LinuxPPC R5 or YDL.

Could you possibly try booting 2.2.1 on this R5 or YDL system?  I'd
like to isolate this from kernel or userland problem.

Dan

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