From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: john@feith.com Cc: gdb-patches@cygnus.com Subject: Re: GDB 4.17 Patch for stack aligned i386 code Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0000 Message-id: <199903100257.SAA12491@andros.cygnus.com> References: <199903100239.VAA28392@jwlab.FEITH.COM> X-SW-Source: 1999-q1/msg00075.html Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:39:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle > I have a bit of anxiety over including it in 4.18 at this > late date, because of the potential impact on all x86 configs. Understandable. What the time frame for the 4.18 release? Any idea of the rough plan for a follow up release? 4.18 should be finished this month, unless some kind of huge showstopper materializes. I'd like the next release to happen in less than a year, with all the current goings-on, once/year is a little too slow of a pace. 1) Backtracing through sigtramps on Solaris is somewhat busted without my changes (the Solaris library contains functions which don't use %ebp as the frame pointer). For example ... the backtrace from gdb.base/a1-selftest.exp (without my patch) shows: Hmmm, that makes it a bug fix, not a new feature, therefore more important to add! 1/2 :-) 2) The egcs patch to eliminate the frame pointer by default on the x86 can't be installed until there's debugger support. That's a pretty compelling point too. I'm kind of tempted to go for this change... Stan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: john@feith.com Cc: gdb-patches@cygnus.com Subject: Re: GDB 4.17 Patch for stack aligned i386 code Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199903100257.SAA12491@andros.cygnus.com> References: <199903100239.VAA28392@jwlab.FEITH.COM> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00021.html Message-ID: <19990309185700.J0G41iFuF8okX3Ae-HHUf3QgTM9rZtSZ6utzBsx51GE@z> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:39:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle > I have a bit of anxiety over including it in 4.18 at this > late date, because of the potential impact on all x86 configs. Understandable. What the time frame for the 4.18 release? Any idea of the rough plan for a follow up release? 4.18 should be finished this month, unless some kind of huge showstopper materializes. I'd like the next release to happen in less than a year, with all the current goings-on, once/year is a little too slow of a pace. 1) Backtracing through sigtramps on Solaris is somewhat busted without my changes (the Solaris library contains functions which don't use %ebp as the frame pointer). For example ... the backtrace from gdb.base/a1-selftest.exp (without my patch) shows: Hmmm, that makes it a bug fix, not a new feature, therefore more important to add! 1/2 :-) 2) The egcs patch to eliminate the frame pointer by default on the x86 can't be installed until there's debugger support. That's a pretty compelling point too. I'm kind of tempted to go for this change... Stan