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Re: GDB on SGI Irix 6.5
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:40:41 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Daniel Berlin <dan@www.cgsoftware.com>
> > >
> > > > We should support 64 bit dwarf2 already, for the most part.
> > >
> > > Since when?
> > Well, since about august of last year or something.
>
> My sources are much newer, so I should already have what you
> describe.
>
> > If you look at dwarf2read.c, you'll notice it handles offset sizes of both
> > 4 and 8.
> > read_initial_length takes care of figuring out which offset size we have.
>
> Thanks, I will look deeper into this. I understand that David says a
> failure with 64-bit Irix 6 executables is expected, though. However,
> I wonder: you seem to say that your new reader does succeed to work on
> Irix? Or was the 64-bit support you meant tested on platforms other
> than Irix?
Other than IRIX.
I forgot that IRIX uses a non 2.1 compliant 64 bit dwarf2.
I've verified it works with 2.1 compliant 64 bit dwarf2.
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