Re: [rfa/mips] Shared library trampoline support for mips-linux

Andrew Cagney
2004-02-11T18:33:35Z

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 06:38:50PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> >- /* Hook in OS ABI-specific overrides, if they have been registered. */
>> >- gdbarch_init_osabi (info, gdbarch);
>> >-
>> > set_gdbarch_skip_trampoline_code (gdbarch, mips_skip_stub);
>> >
>> > set_gdbarch_in_solib_call_trampoline (gdbarch, mips_in_call_stub);
>> > set_gdbarch_in_solib_return_trampoline (gdbarch, mips_in_return_stub);
>
>>
>> Assuming that the default is no OS, I'm actually wondering why these are
>> set at all.
>
>
> Because they're used for MIPS16, presumably. The fact that MIPS16 call
> stubs use the solib machinery is why I had a ??? in my question.

If you can wrap those two in an "if (osabi isn't for an os)", and add a
rude comment, I'm ok.

I get the feeling that infrun should just have a list of per-osabi
function names that it either silently step-outof or finishes. If it
were user visible, people could even add to it.

Andrew