Question on cross compiling...

I wish to confirm whether my understanding is correct or
not.

Has GDB been modified so that it can read cross-platform
core files yet?  I
can not find in 6.6 docs whether this has been completed or
even begun
although I have found several posts which indicate that this
effort is
underway.

At this point I would say that it is not complete if
underway, is that a
correct assessment?

MEB

"Michael Boerner" <michaelboernerconsulting.com> writes:
> Has GDB been modified so that it can read
cross-platform core files yet?  I
> can not find in 6.6 docs whether this has been
completed or even begun
> although I have found several posts which indicate that
this effort is
> underway.

On most platforms, yes.

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Boerner
<michaelboernerconsulting.com> writes:

 Michael> I wish to confirm whether my understanding is
correct or
 Michael> not.

 Michael> Has GDB been modified so that it can read
cross-platform
 Michael> core files yet?  I can not find in 6.6 docs
whether this has
 Michael> been completed or even begun although I have
found several
 Michael> posts which indicate that this effort is
underway.

I can't remember the details, but I used to have to change
configure
and/or makefiles to make this work.  That was a while go.

I'm not seeing local changes for this anymore in my current
lcaol copy
(based on 6.6) and I'm doing corefile processing of a
NetBSD-mips
target on i386-netbsd and i386-linux hosts.

It seems to work pretty well.  Our case isn't the hardest
case, though
-- both host and target are little-endian.

   paul

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:07:42PM -0500, Michael Boerner
wrote:
> Has GDB been modified so that it can read
cross-platform core files yet?

FWIW, cross-gdb 6.6 on an i386-linux host works without
problems with
cores from arm-linux, but the native arm-linux one doesn't
print
backtraces. I still didn't have time to look why.

With kind regards,
-- 
Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/