Re: [RFA] New GDB target iq2000

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:51:33 -0500
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:46:29AM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:34:43 -0500
> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to cut down on the proliferation of linetable-aware code in
> > > tdep files.  We've already got skip_prologue_using_sal, which is
> > > similar but not quite the same.  Will that work for iq2000?  Failing
> > > that, should the new method be used on other targets?  There's nothing
> > > iq2000 specific about it.
> > 
> > IMO, skip_prologue_using_sal() either needs to be rewritten or deleted.
> > In its present form, it's not very useful.
> 
> FWIW, I have a small modification to it which lets it handle two
> consecutive line notes at the same address (it's still in my queue). 
> After that, it was quite useful on ARM.
> 
> If the generic version is not very useful, let's see what we can do
> about that!  Could you elaborate?

I haven't done a recent anaylsis, but I did one a while back.  See:

    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-08/msg00043.html

Kevin