[haiku-commits] Re: BRANCH xyzzy-github.x86_64 - in src/system/kernel/arch/x86: . 64

  • From: Alex Smith <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:49:23 +0100

On 13 July 2012 16:30, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Alex Smith wrote:
> > Plus even with DWARF, it still may not be possible to get all the
> arguments
> > as their values may be lost due to optimization. If I fix up the GDB stub
> > for x86_64 that should be sufficient. Not sure what the problem is with
> it,
> > it's faulting when I connect GDB to it. Probably the stub code is not
> > correct for 64-bit, I'll look into it later.
>
> The gdb support isn't high priority ATM. Last time I tried it wasn't even
> possible to load a gcc 2 kernel in gdb (any gdb version I tried crashed or
> hung). So unless you want to use it yourself feel free to add a TODO and
> postpone.
>

It's working alright on x86 GCC 4, I tried it yesterday. If I can't find
the problem quickly I'll leave it for now.

Thanks,
Alex

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