From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12760 invoked by alias); 14 May 2008 19:14:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 12748 invoked by uid 22791); 14 May 2008 19:14:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from igw2.br.ibm.com (HELO igw2.br.ibm.com) (32.104.18.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 May 2008 19:13:56 +0000 Received: from mailhub3.br.ibm.com (mailhub3 [9.18.232.110]) by igw2.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575A117F45F for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 16:03:19 -0300 (BRST) Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (d24av02.br.ibm.com [9.18.232.47]) by mailhub3.br.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m4EJ9fif1638432 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 16:09:41 -0300 Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m4EJ9cAj012915 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 16:09:38 -0300 Received: from [9.18.238.95] ([9.18.238.95]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m4EJ9cjC012910; Wed, 14 May 2008 16:09:38 -0300 Subject: Re: [rfc] Remove "function descriptor" handling on ppc32 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann To: Ulrich Weigand Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, drow@false.org In-Reply-To: <200805141731.m4EHVCwS018368@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> References: <200805141731.m4EHVCwS018368@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:46:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1210791686.617.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2008-05/txt/msg00445.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:31 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > Thus, this all appears to be dead code, and I'd prefer to remove it. > I've tested the patch below with no change in behaviour on powerpc-linux > and powerpc64-linux. > > Am I overlooking anything here? By the way, the patch also made bfd_lookup_symbol in solib-svr4.c look for symbols in data sections, and added a call to gdbarch_convert_from_func_ptr_addr. Is that dead code as well? -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center