Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Should a x86 gdb work under an x86_64 kernel? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:56:00 +0100 |
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> Hi, > > I've noticed that if I try to use a 32-bit x86 gdb to debug a > 32-bit program under a 64-bit x86_64 kernel, gdb (version 6.6-debian, > from Ubuntu Gutsy) immediately core dumps as soon as I run the test > program under the debugger. Is this normal/expected/known bug?
It's clearly a bug. x86-64 compat user space should be 99+% compatible and running full 32bit user land with a 64bit kernel is supposed to work.
The main exceptions are a few programs that rely on the 3GB address space (these can be used with linux32 --3gb), some programs which make bogus assumptions about /proc,/sys which cannot be fixed and a few programs which use obscure driver specific ioctls with no compat wrapper.
-Andi
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