Re: DDD question

[Piet/Pete Delaney]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Ken Tam wrote:

ddd is working fine on the ia64 (a  64-bit Intel Processor)
and I used it on Solaris with UltraSPARC (a 64-bit Sun Processor).

gdb likley had to be the same word lenght as the core. There
is a config option for gdb for cross platform support.

-piet


> Hi!
> 
> I am one of the developers currently using DDD as debugging tool.  Recently,
> our development Unix machine has been changed from 32-bit mode to 64-bit
> mode.  Since this change, core file generated (the file is generated when
> 64-bit is on) cannot be opened by DDD.  
> 
> Here is the error I got:
>       warning: Couldn't find general-purpose registers in core file.
> 
> 
> However, DDD could open core file and debug on core file without any problem
> when the Unix machine was running on 32 bit.  
> 
> My guess is DDD is designed for 32-bit, and it can run on 64-bit machine but
> cannot read core file (generated by 64-bit Unix machine).  Am I correct?  If
> yes, what option do I have for debugging a 64-bit core file?
> 
> 
> Ken Tam 
> 
> Product Developer
> 
> 
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