From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23845 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2004 22:11:22 -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 23772 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2004 22:11:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2004 22:11:20 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BCE2B9A; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:25:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4058B42C.8010007@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:11:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: David Carlton , mec.gnu@mindspring.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0 References: <20040317015343.3DA244B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <8296-Wed17Mar2004210500+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> In-Reply-To: <8296-Wed17Mar2004210500+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03.o/txt/msg00410.txt Message-ID: <20040317221100.-DtR7jdI1O47Qch-px_xvBGqtujtm__UVAsAoatqtLg@z> >>From: David Carlton >>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:19:23 -0800 >>> >>> While we're updating PROBLEMS, is the list of targets that don't use >>> the new frame code accurate? (Sparc, mips, ppc, arm.) > > > Do users care? What user-level effect will one see on those targets > that don't use the new frame code? > > IMHO, if there are no user-level issues, we shouldn't mention this in > PROBLEMS. - arches using the old frame stuff are typically in worse shape - arches using the old frame stuff can't use CFI (i.e., can't use exploit GCC's frame debug info) the second one in particular is of issue to users - it affects GDB's ability to do decent backtraces (especially through glibc). Yes, the list needs updating, SPARC and ARM are done. MIPS and PA are "done" (it lost the signal stuff). For PPC, that will be 6.2, which leaves a few strays. Andrew