Re: 64-bit gdb 5.3 on Solaris

[Christian Joensson <c dot christian dot joensson at telia dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've just built the gdb-5.3 on Solaris, using Sun's native compiler
> with
> 
>         -xO3 -xstrconst -xarch=v9b
> 
> When trying to debug an executable, however, gdb complains at startup:
> GNU gdb 5.3
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "sparc64-sun-solaris2.8"...gdbarch.c:2619: 
> gdb-internal-error: gdbarch: gdbarch_num_regs invalid
> 
> An internal GDB error was detected.  This may make further
> debugging unreliable.  Quit this debugging session? (y or n) 
> 
> If I ask it to continue and type "run", it will die from a SEGFAULT.
> Why is the gdbarch_num_regs busted? Thanks!
> 

did you get any reponse?

Idm actually more interesetd in having a working gdb-5.3 (or CVS HEAD)
for sparc64-linux, but any clues on this might be helpful for the
sparc64-linux target also I guess.

Cheers,

/ChJ