From: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>
To: GDB Patches ML <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Subject: Infinite backtrace on (eg.) ARM
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158889724.22863.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Been thinking about this problem. Check me out here.
Taking a step or two back from the intimate view of gdb internals,
the problem (if I understand it) is detecting the fact that we have
an unusual case of a function that doesn't save it's return address.
We have to detect the fact that we should stop the frame chain at
this function's frame.
So the most common case of a function that doesn't save its return
address is a leaf function, yes? But we can distinguish that case
from the pathological case by looking at the frame->level. A leaf
function can only be at frame level zero, unles we've made a dummy
frame on top of it via a target function call.
So we can check for:
* doesn't save its PC, and
* frame->level > 0, and
* frame->next is not a call dummy.
Except that the information "doesn't save its PC" isn't public
at the point where we want it. It's hidden within frame_register_unwind
and below -- in this case, in trad_frame. So we sort of have a problem
of "what do we know, and when do we know it".
So -- what if we exported a method to make that info public?
It's rather specific, but in this case important: "does this
frame save its return address?"
next reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-22 1:48 Michael Snyder [this message]
2006-09-22 2:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-22 18:56 ` Michael Snyder
2006-10-05 21:51 ` Ping, " Michael Snyder
2006-10-05 22:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-22 19:00 ` Jim Blandy
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