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Re: GDB & FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:16:39 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:42:45PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I be able to cook something up that should work on all i386 BSD's with
The thust shouldn't be viewed as working on all i386 BSD's, but all
4.4BSD derived systems. FreeBSD/Alpha is very import to me also.
Most of the work I did is specifically related to i386-specific
things, so it doesn't help FreeBSD/Alphe very much :-(.
> I'd check it in along with a TODO entry mentioning the need to access
> how hard it is to ``fix'' 1.x.
I can offer a 1.x install CDROM, but I don't know of any one still
running a FreeBSD 1.x box.
It's probably not worth it. People still using FreeBSD 1.x, can use
older versions of GDB instead.
> OK, I'll do that for the code that I have right now (which should work
> on FreeBSD 2.2 and up) and then see if I can revive the support for
> older FreeBSD's after that.
My concern is for FreeBSD 3.0+ (ie. ELF). If support for FreeBSD 2.x had
to be dropped, it would not bother me. I'd like to have the current
systems supported; and those of the future (again ELF).
If I can be of any help providing access to FreeBSD 4-STABLE (which will
become 4.1 RELEASE) or 5-CURRENT systems, please let me know.
Well, testing on some other FreeBSD releases besides 3.4 wouldn't
hurt. If no-one volunteers, setting me up with an account on such a
system would probably lead to some test-runs on it :-).
Mark