From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27010 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2005 19:17:15 -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 26801 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2005 19:17:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Mar 2005 19:17:07 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j23JH2Zb025271 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:17:07 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j23JH2K00584; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:17:02 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (vpn50-40.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.40]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j23JH2Nt002847; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:17:02 -0500 Received: from ironwood.lan (ironwood.lan [192.168.64.8]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j23JGuaB001793; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:16:56 -0700 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:17:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] New GDB target iq2000 Message-ID: <20050303121656.1bbf5467@ironwood.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050303175133.GA29272@nevyn.them.org> References: <20050222114141.GA18314@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20050303173443.GD18681@nevyn.them.org> <20050303104629.678a0986@ironwood.lan> <20050303175133.GA29272@nevyn.them.org> Organization: Red Hat Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:51:33 -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz 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 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