2.6.27-rc5-mm1 mystery trace

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:42:44 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> > This is stupid:
> > 
> > g5:/usr/src/25> gdb vmlinux
> > GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.21rh)
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> > This GDB was configured as "ppc-yellowdog-linux-gnu"..."/usr/src/25/vmlinux": not in executable format: File format not recognized
> > 
> > probably there's some command line magic to make it work, but there
> > shouldn't be.
> 
> Is this a 64 bits gdb ?
> 

I don't think so - it's whatever ydl4.1 gave me.

A 64-bit binary on a 64-bit machine Should Just Work.  Maybe that's
me being simplistic.