Re: GDB 16.3: is it possible to cross-debug an x64 core from ARM?

Paul Smith via Gdb <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:40:54 -0500

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On Fri, 2025-12-05 at 19:10 +0000, Luis wrote:
> To be honest, the aarch64 sim is very outdated. I'm not sure why we
> still carry it around.

Well, it's built if you configure GDB with --enable-targets holding
aarch64-linux-gnu, and if you don't use that configure option then you
can't cross-debug ARM cores on non-ARM systems.

If you're suggesting that it should be possible to cross-debug for ARM
without that sim, I can't speak to that.

Cheers!