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Re: [RFC] The never ending 32-bit vs. 64-bit blues
- From: David Lecomber <david at allinea dot com>
- To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:13:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC] The never ending 32-bit vs. 64-bit blues
- References: <200511072245.jA7MjnIL005849@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:45 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> In the past we have had a lot of bug reports from people trying to
> debug 64-bit programs with a native 32-bit gdb. As far as I know we
> don't support any native configuration that allows this. I've never
> quite managed to come up with a satisfactory solution to deal with
> this. Here's an attempt to deal with it by making configure complain.
>
Hi Mark,
AIX's can only be run within a 32-bit debugger, even for 64-bit apps --
ie. their ptrace only be called in 32-bit mode.
Cheers
d.