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Re: re-enabling debugging of 32 bit processes with 64 bit debugger



In article <qfd1sp$9bj$1%serpens.de@localhost>,
Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
>christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>
>>We can fill them completely with 0 as we pad with 0 the 32 bit
>>part of the 64 bit registers that does not exist in a 32 bit
>>process.
>
>The corefile pretends to be a 32bit file, so the register
>section should probably be similar to a coredump of a
>32bit system.
>
>N.B. two registers were not zero padded, a temporary and the 'hi'
>register. So I don't think there is padding (or truncating)
>done.

I have not looked at the core file, I was referring to what should be
returned by PT_GETREGS in the 64 bit tracer 32 bit tracee case.

christos



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