Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tcg/i386: Use GDB JIT debugging interface only for hosts with ELF

[Stefan Weil]

Am 14.04.2012 18:42, schrieb Richard Henderson:
> On 04/07/2012 11:53 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > Not all i386 / x86_64 hosts use ELF.
> > Ask the compiler whether ELF is used.
> >
> > On w64, gdb crashes when ELF_HOST_MACHINE is defined.
>
> Hmm. Because the other way this could be addressed is
> to fix gdb. (1) it shouldn't crash and (2) it could
> support elf alongside pe-coff fairly easily i'd imagine;
> just a matter of enabling that bfd backend.
>
> Shall we ask gdb maintainers?
>
>
> r~

Fixing problems at their source - in this
case fixing gdb - is of course the best solution.

For the w64 port of gdb, I needed a quick solution.
Usually it will take some time to ask the gdb maintainers,
find a solution, get distributions which include the solution
and use such distributions everywhere.

I don't think that the setup with pe-coff (when it is supported)
will be 100 % identical to the elf setup, so most probably we'll
need a test for ELF / not ELF anyway.

Therefore I suggest to apply my patch, even it is only an
intermediate solution for the next year.

Regards,
Stefan W.

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