From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7619 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2003 00:42:34 -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 7604 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2003 00:42:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2003 00:42:33 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFjqb-00039L-Cs for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:42:33 -0500 Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa:symtab] deprecate inside_entry_func Message-ID: <20031101004233.GA11987@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3FA2F940.5040102@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FA2F940.5040102@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:07:28PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Hello, > > This patch deprecates the function inside_entry_func. Per the new comments: > > + /* NOTE: cagney/2003-10-31: A very simple test, such as > + get_frame_func == entry_point should be sufficient for > + identifying a pc in the entry function. Does anyone know why it > + wasn't sufficient and hence, why the very convoluted > + "deprecated_inside_entry_func" is needed. */ > + /* NOTE: cagney/2003-10-31: An ABI and its crt0 code should define > + and implement a clean frame termination. Not doing that is > + really a bug in the ABI/crt0, and, hence, not a reason for > + enabling the call to deprecated_inside_entry_func. */ If handling broken systems isn't the job of GDB, then I surely don't know what is. Do you have a reason for wanting to deprecate this function? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer