Re: hppa -> x86 gdb cross debugger for oskit-mach

To: "B. Douglas Hilton" <doug.hilton@engineer.com>
Subject: Re: hppa -> x86 gdb cross debugger for oskit-mach
From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:55:29 -0500 (EST)
Cc: debian-hurd <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>, debian-hppa <debian-hppa@lists.debian.org>, oskit-users <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
In-Reply-To: B. Douglas Hilton's message of Sun, 24 February 2002 14:07:01 -0500 <3C7939D5.7010709@engineer.com>
Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

> Since I didn't exactly cross-compile oskit-mach
> or oskit, do I really need to make a i386-pc-unknown-gnu0.2
> cross debugger for oskit-mach? That target really isn't supported
> too well on the debian-hppa flavor of gdb.

For remote serial debugging, you just need some ELF-based target so gdb can
grok the executable's symbols.  The rest of the OS-specific code in gdb is
not relevant to the remote case.  So i386-linux, i386-elf, i386-freebsd, etc,
probably all work just the same for this purpose.  (Most people's actual
experience is with a native x86 GNU/Linux or native x86/FreeBSD gdb.)

References:

hppa -> x86 gdb cross debugger for oskit-mach

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