Re: GDB & FreeBSD

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>]

   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