From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30661 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2004 19:02:15 -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 30652 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2004 19:02:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Jun 2004 19:02:14 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1Beeuq-0006TC-KO; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:02:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add libkvm interface support for NetBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/i386 Message-ID: <20040627190212.GA24698@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Marcel Moolenaar , Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200406271623.i5RGN4Hd007746@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <20040627163414.GB7790@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <200406271701.i5RH1wWJ007924@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <20040627173854.GA7904@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040627173854.GA7904@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00608.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:38:54AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > The same would apply to the unwind library on ia64. It's easy enough > to label a frame with unwind information, but knowing what to do with > such a frame may require more knowledge than what you like the unwind > library to have. Hooks to allow some "external" code to deal with it > would probably be the most flexible solution. I think the best thing to do is to allow these to be written in some sort of scripting language - that wouldn't elegantly allow moving libunwind support out of GDB unless we used a scripting language that supported dlopen, but it would be good for other things. -- Daniel Jacobowitz