From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16705 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2003 21:25:46 -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 16698 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2003 21:25:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO concert.shout.net) (204.253.184.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2003 21:25:45 -0000 Received: from duracef.shout.net (duracef.shout.net [204.253.184.12]) by concert.shout.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8NLPfBX026845; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:25:41 -0500 Received: from duracef.shout.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duracef.shout.net (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8NLPfVd031811; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:25:41 -0500 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id h8NLPf0f031810; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:25:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:25:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200309232125.h8NLPf0f031810@duracef.shout.net> To: ezannoni@redhat.com, kewarken@qnx.com Subject: Re: [Patch] fix for PR:1291 Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00511.txt.bz2 eza> I wonder if this can be captured in a test case? Yes, see testsuite/gdb.arch/i386-prologue.exp for a prologue test case by Mark Kettenis. The idea is to write explicit assembly code and then check gdb's behavior on it. That avoids the compiler dependency. Michael C