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Re: status of Darwin support
Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Christian
> Thalinger<Christian.Thalinger@sun.com> wrote:
>
>> (gdb) p sect2->objfile->section_offsets[0]@17
>> $5 = {{offsets = {7106}}, {offsets = {0}} <repeats 11 times>, {
>> offsets = {4294940264}}, {offsets = {4294944662}}, {offsets =
>> {4294944325}}, {offsets = {0}}, {offsets = {0}}}
>
> Hmm, not all zeros ...
> It would have helped me a lot if I know what values are expected here :-(
>
> I think I'll have to get gdb-cvs working before I can debug this some more.
>
> Searching google for the "Unable to find Mach task port for process-id"
> shows several threads like this:
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/Xcode-users/2007/Dec/msg00777.html
>
> So I'll probably have to find out the differences between GDB in Xcode 2.5
> and 3.0. I suspect there is some magic syscall one has to perform on Leopard.
>
> BTW, what OS are you on?
It's 10.5.8:
$ uname -a
Darwin macbook 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01
PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
but it also worked on 10.5.7. The only thing that pops into my mind is
that my user is also an admin...
-- Christian