From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11762 invoked by alias); 3 May 2012 19:03:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 11754 invoked by uid 22791); 3 May 2012 19:03:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 May 2012 19:03:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36361C6C70; Thu, 3 May 2012 15:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LQ1ICNlbgsPR; Thu, 3 May 2012 15:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kwai.gnat.com (kwai.gnat.com [205.232.38.4]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFCA1C6C6B; Thu, 3 May 2012 15:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kwai.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 4233) id 978B73FEE8; Thu, 3 May 2012 15:03:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: macro@codesourcery.com Subject: Getting rid of AT_SYMBOL inferior call method Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 19:03:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1336071802-13599-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> 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: 2012-05/txt/msg00099.txt.bz2 Hello, This is something I promised I'd help with someday on a rainy day: http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-12/msg00896.html There are two patches: . Patch #1 transitions mips targets to using ON_STACK instead of AT_SYMBOL; . Patch #2 removes AT_SYMBOL and AT_SYMBOL support. The patch series was tested on mips-irix, no regression.