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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: fnf@ninemoons.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Avoid calling XXX_skip_prologue for assembly code
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1011005205818.ZM29107@ocotillo.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fnf@www.ninemoons.com>

On Oct 5, 12:54pm, Fred Fish wrote:

> Does anyone have any issues with the attached patch?
> 
> There is little point in attempting to skip over prologues if we
> already know for a fact that the source language is assembly.
> 
> In fact, attempting to do so may actually be incorrect if the user has
> taken the output of the compiler, used that as the basis for his code,
> and hand optimized it in some way to produce an assembly version.
> There could still be prologue code in the hand crafted version.
[...]
> 	* symtab.c (find_function_start_sal): Do not attempt to skip over
> 	prologues for assembly functions.

The patch looks good to me.  (Please note that I'm not the maintainer
though.)

Kevin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-05 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-05 12:55 Fred Fish
2001-10-11 13:13 ` Jim Blandy
2001-10-11 13:37   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-10-11 13:22 ` Jim Blandy
2001-10-11 14:17 ` Jim Blandy
2001-10-11 15:40   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-10-11 19:23     ` Fred Fish
2002-04-11 16:30   ` Fred Fish
2002-04-12  8:34     ` Fernando Nasser
2002-04-12  9:41       ` Fred Fish
2002-04-12  9:47         ` Fernando Nasser
     [not found] ` <fnf@www.ninemoons.com>
2001-10-05 13:58   ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2001-10-27 16:38   ` [RFA] Change auto-solib-add to boolean, add auto-solib-limit Kevin Buettner
2001-10-29 22:14   ` [RFA] Use 1024*1024 for a megabyte, not 1000000 Kevin Buettner
2001-10-30 17:22   ` [RFA] Fix a couple of auto-solib-add problems Kevin Buettner
2001-10-27 12:50 [RFA] Change auto-solib-add to boolean, add auto-solib-limit Fred Fish
2001-10-27 17:01 ` Elena Zannoni
2001-10-28  1:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-10-29 20:35 [RFA] Use 1024*1024 for a megabyte, not 1000000 Fred Fish
2001-10-30 15:35 [RFA] Fix a couple of auto-solib-add problems Fred Fish
2001-10-31  4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii

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