From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22300 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2010 12:19:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 22291 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Nov 2010 12:19:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MSGID_MULTIPLE_AT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mailhost.u-strasbg.fr (HELO mailhost.u-strasbg.fr) (130.79.200.158) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:19:39 +0000 Received: from md1.u-strasbg.fr (md1.u-strasbg.fr [IPv6:2001:660:2402::186]) by mailhost.u-strasbg.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.5pre1) with ESMTP id oAECJVro061132 ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:19:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr) Received: from mailserver.u-strasbg.fr (ms2.u-strasbg.fr [IPv6:2001:660:2402:d::11]) by md1.u-strasbg.fr (8.14.4/jtpda-5.5pre1) with ESMTP id oAECJVtk063054 ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:19:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr) Received: from E6510Muller (lec67-4-82-230-53-140.fbx.proxad.net [82.230.53.140]) (user=mullerp mech=LOGIN) by mailserver.u-strasbg.fr (8.14.4/jtpda-5.5pre1) with ESMTP id oAECJSt1084545 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:19:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr) From: "Pierre Muller" To: "'Ulrich Weigand'" , "'Daniel Jacobowitz'" Cc: Subject: [RFC] About arm-tdep.c arm_in_function_epilogue_p function Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: <002701cb83f6$30b394e0$921abea0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00169.txt.bz2 In the second part of that function, for which II just committed an obvious compilation failure fix, I found something strange: found_stack_adjust = 0; insn = read_memory_unsigned_integer (pc - 4, 4, byte_order_for_code); if (bits (insn, 28, 31) != INST_NV) { if ((insn & 0x0df0f000) == 0x0080d000) /* ADD SP (register or immediate). */ found_stack_adjust = 1; else if ((insn & 0x0df0f000) == 0x0040d000) /* SUB SP (register or immediate). */ found_stack_adjust = 1; else if ((insn & 0x0ffffff0) == 0x01a0d000) /* MOV SP. */ >>> This line seems weird: >>> why should a MOV SP be considered as a return? >>> It should rather be a change in stack, no? >>> (but I know about nothing about ARM instructions...) >>> Furthermore, found_return isn't used >>> anymore in that function. >>> Isn't the correct code >>> found_stack_adjust = 1; found_return = 1; else if ((insn & 0x0fff0000) == 0x08bd0000) /* POP (LDMIA). */ found_stack_adjust = 1; } if (found_stack_adjust) return 1; return 0; } Ulrich or Daniel, could one of you two check this and commit a fix if I am right? Thanks in advance, Pierre Muller GDB pascal language maintainer