Re: gdb configuration

[Chris Rhodin <chris@notav8.com>]

I was using a gdb I built from the Debian sources, it's version 6.4.90.  
I just built 6.8 from GNU and everything seems to work fine now.

Thanks,


Chris Rhodin

David Daney wrote:

> Chris Rhodin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to debug 32-bit linux over a serial port with gdb.  I'm 
>> able to connect to the target and everything looks good until I 
>> examine the registers.  What's there is obviously wrong.  I've 
>> examined the stack and found the register data structure.  Each 
>> register in this structure is 32 bits.  When I compare the structure 
>> to the registers that gdb displays I can see that gdb is expecting 
>> each register to occupy 64 bits.  I've tried setting "abi", 
>> "saved-gpreg-size", and "stack-arg-size" to 32 bits without success.  
>> Can someone point out my obvious mistake?
>>
>
> Please report the exact versions of all the tools you are using.  If 
> you are not using gdb 6.8 upgrade to that version and see what happens.
>
> If it still fails, try asking on gdb@sourceware.org
>
> David Daney
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