From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10182 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2004 17:11:33 -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 10160 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2004 17:11:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pippin.tausq.org) (64.81.244.94) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 18 Nov 2004 17:11:24 -0000 Received: by pippin.tausq.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AACC9CD9F3; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:11:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:11:00 -0000 From: Randolph Chung To: mark Kettenis Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/RFA/hppa] Make the stub identification code smarter Message-ID: <20041118171109.GN15714@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung References: <20041118012327.GH15714@tausq.org> <200411181701.iAIH1RPE026059@juw15.nfra.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411181701.iAIH1RPE026059@juw15.nfra.nl> X-GPG: for GPG key, see http://www.tausq.org/gpg.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00379.txt.bz2 > AFAIK the BSD's don't use a segmented memory model, and therefore > don't use stubs, but I'm not completely sure about that. neither does hppa-linux. The stubs are not for that... they are for calling shlib functions and to handle long branches (since for pa11 the branch target for a b,l insn is only 17 bits) > Now that I think of it, OpenBSD/hppa didn't have shared libraries > until very recently. ok, anyway, just a heads up in case the code is useful for hppabsd too :) randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/