From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32737 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2003 17:03:02 -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 32730 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 17:03:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2003 17:03:02 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOK73-000297-3g for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:03:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:03:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: DW_AT_frame_base fix for complicated frames Message-ID: <20031124170300.GA6406@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20031002165606.GA22819@nevyn.them.org> <20031009142637.GC29621@nevyn.them.org> <3F857B4B.9000708@redhat.com> <20031124043408.GA19791@nevyn.them.org> <3FC22B93.1080106@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FC22B93.1080106@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00522.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:14:19AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > >> > > > >>>Thanks. I've committed this to trunk and branch. I also moved this to > >>>the branch: > >>> > >>>2003-10-09 Daniel Jacobowitz > >>> > >>> Merge from mainline: > >>> 2003-07-31 Daniel Jacobowitz > >>> > >>> * dwarf2read.c (new_symbol): Use var_decode_location for > >>> parameters. > >>> > >>>Location expressions and lists should work reasonably well on both now. > > > >> > >>Can you please add something to the NEWS file. That way the 6.0.1 > >>announcement will include information letting the user decide if they > >>need to upgrade. > > > > > >Going through my email backlog... > > > >Should I bother, or have we written off 6.0.1? > > I suspect 6.0.1 is a writeoff, but the NEWS entry in mainline will still > help. Good idea. I've done this. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer 2003-11-24 Daniel Jacobowitz * NEWS: Mention improved location expression support. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.126 diff -u -p -r1.126 NEWS --- NEWS 18 Oct 2003 18:41:22 -0000 1.126 +++ NEWS 24 Nov 2003 17:02:00 -0000 @@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ *** Changes since GDB 6.0: +* DWARF 2 Location Expressions + +GDB support for location expressions has been extended to support function +arguments and frame bases. Older versions of GDB could crash when they +encountered these. + * New native configurations NetBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-netbsd*