From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 21:44:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] IA-64 Linux TODO list Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:25:14 -0700, Kevin Buettner said: >> > - gdb > - NaT bits don't seem to work properly? > - coredump >> support still broken? Kevin> I have a couple of other items to add to this list of things Kevin> which isn't working in gdb. Kevin> 1) Calling inferior functions no longer works. (At least it Kevin> didn't in the recent Red Hat release. I'm rebuilding gdb now Kevin> with the TurboLinux release to check it there.) I've done Kevin> some investigation of this problem and it looks to me like Kevin> the RSE backing store is changing under us (gdb that is) when Kevin> bsp is changed. Kevin> 2) Hardware watchpoints no longer work. Again, the value Kevin> returned by the kernel looks suspect. There appear to be a Kevin> couple of bits that were reset... Kevin> In general, the state of gdb isn't as good right now as it Kevin> used to be. There was a time when I was seeing only between Kevin> 20-30 test suite failures. The number is now over 700. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the issues are due to kernel bugs and I'll certainly be happy to work with you on getting those issues resolved. Getting gdb to be reliable (again) is definitely high on my priority list. --david