Re: [cooker-amd64] DDD crashes with cooker

[Pierre-Olivier Gaillard]

Jeremy Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:21 am, Pierre-Olivier Gaillard wrote:
>
> > Hello, I compiled ddd-3.3.8 with lesstif-0.93.94 on Mandrake 9.2RC1 for
> > AMD64 using RPMs for the x86 cooker.
> > But ddd crashes. Did anybody get ddd to work on Mandrake 9.2 for AMD64 ?
>
>
> I tried the same thing.  It looks to me from the compiler warning messages 
> that it's not 64-bit clean (or at least, assumes that sizeof(int) == 
> sizeof(void *)).  There were several messages about pointers being truncated.
>
> Since it only communicates through a pipe with GDB, you can control a 64 bit 
> gdb with a 32 bit ddd (just install the 32-bit RPM).  Alternatively, I saw an 
> x86_64 RPM for ddd from RedHat somewhere (I did a web search); assuming that 
> they've fixed and tested it, you might be able to rebuild with whatever patch 
> they applied to get it to work.
>
> By the way, you absolutely need GDB 6.0 to debug 64-bit code.  GDB 5.3 is (for 
> me) completely unusable.
>
> I would imagine that it's a bug with ddd, not with lesstif.

Thanks for your advice. I now have a working i586 ddd, a working gdb 6.0 
(that accepts to debug Ada although the support is limited).

	sincerely,

	P.O. Gaillard