Re: [RFA] New GDB target iq2000

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-03T17:51:39Z

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?