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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/4] gdbstub: x86: Switch 64/32 bit
	registers dynamically
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:43:33 +0100
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

> > You've just deliberately broken the qemu gdbstub. After your patch it is
> > impossible to debug mixed 32/64-bit code.
>
> Please give it a try as it's the other way around: You can't properly
> debug mixed target code without my patch. 

Sure you can, you just need a gdb that doesn't suck.  As soon as you encounter 
actual mixed code (rather than just running the wrong qemu) your patch causes 
things to die horribly.

Paul