Re: GDB / AArch64 / MacOS

Andrew Haley via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 7/19/23 20:29, John Baldwin wrote:
> I think you are probably better off starting with the x86 darwin target
> since it uses Mach ports for debugging rather than ptrace.  Probably the
> architecture-specific parts you would need (dealing with different register
> sets, etc.) is fairly small.

Thanks, good point. The AArch64/MacOS calling convention is a bit of a nightmare, in
that it packs args into registers in a weird way.

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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