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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:10:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
        "ia64 patch to handle predicated insns in prologue" (Aug 26,  2:30pm)
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To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: ia64 patch to handle predicated insns in prologue
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On Aug 26,  2:30pm, J. Johnston wrote:

> The accompanying patch handles a bug in backtracing through glibc's sleep.
> The compiler generates some predicated insns prior to saving the return register
> b0 into a register stack register.  The current code stops when it sees a
> predicated insn.  The change makes the prologue examination stop only if the
> function is frameless or we have already seen the return register.
> 
> This removes a number of failures in gdb.threads caused when we catch another
> thread in sleep and we try and backtrace.
> 
> Ok to commit?

Okay.

Thanks again,

Kevin