From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1776 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2002 17:52:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1768 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2002 17:52:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.19.120.103) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2002 17:52:17 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17IYm3-0007Lb-00; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:52:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:52:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA/mips: Use ".pdr" sections generated by GAS Message-ID: <20020613175243.GA28194@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20020613173225.GA27321@nevyn.them.org> <200206131749.KAA07048@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206131749.KAA07048@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00226.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:49:07AM -0700, Paul Hilfinger wrote: > > > > According to its documentation, exc_unwind on IRIX 6.5 currently uses > > > .debug_frame information for unwinding purposes (and its native > > > assembler now does not produce PDR sections there). I am not familiar > > > with the set of all MIPS platforms, so I am moved to ask whether it > > > would (1) be a good idea if or (2) be unnecessary for GDB to do the > > > same thing. > > > > Did the IRIX 6.5 assembler ever produce PDR sections? I was unaware of > > this. > > Sorry for the confusing wording. I should have said simply that the > IRIX assembler no longer produces PDR information. (To be honest, I > really haven't followed the evolution of this software enough to know > when last the SGI tool chain DID produce this information, but am > piecing together scraps of historical data by reading out-of-date > comments on current #include files and historical hints in current > man pages.) Let me clarify my response too, then... did any IRIX assembler ever produce PDR sections? I've been unable to find any evidence of this, but I haven't spent great effort searching. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer