From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30492 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2003 23:31:05 -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 30477 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2003 23:30:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2003 23:30:59 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZLME-0006aM-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:31:42 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZJTQ-0002Ln-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:31:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:31:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Add frame unwinder registrary Message-ID: <20030116233100.GA8984@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3E271A4C.9080506@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E271A4C.9080506@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00633.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:47:08PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > [ref: cagney-unwind-20030108-branch] > > This patch add the two files frame-unwind.[hc] that implement a simple > frame unwind registrary. > > Given a function that contains the address PC, the method > frame_unwind_find_by_pc(ARCH,PC) returns methods that can unwind the > specified function's stack frame. > > At present the code knows about two frames: > > dummy-frame > these are the frames that GDB creates when doing an inferior function call. > > trad[itional]-frame > GDB's traditional / original prologe analysis, extra frame info, frame > saved regs, frame. That's the name you settled on? Hmm, I like it. > Architectures can add to this list. On the above branch, the d10v adds > a rewritten d10v specific frame unwinder. An obvious addition would be > a CFI frame unwinder. > > I'll look to commit this in a few days. Great. After you do, I'll try to integrate the CFI unwinder with it and then we can move forward on artificial debug info again. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer