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On 10/25/2010 02:32 PM, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  Can gdb be made to work on mips64?
>

You have to have a 64-bit toolchain.

Then something like this (untested):

CC='mips64-linux-gnu -mabi=64' configure --host=mips64-linux 
--target=mips64-linux.

I don't think a 32-bit gdb can debug 64-bit processes :-(.

David Daney


> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /home/camm/gcl-2.6.8pre/unixport/saved_pre_gcl
> /home/wingsun/develop/build/gdb/gdb-6.8/gdb/mips-tdep.c:603: internal-error: bad register size
> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
> further debugging may prove unreliable.
>
> Take care,