From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: jimb@red-bean.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA/i386] pb reading insns if breakpoints still inserted
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428184843.GG930@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604281839.k3SIdfsq030892@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
> I don't completely disagree with you here, but, a different way to
> view the problem is putting the blame with the fact that we (ab)use
> the prologue analyzer for skipping the prologue when trying to place a
> breakpoint at the start of a function, where we really should be able
> to use the debug info for doing this.
It would be nice to live in a world when prologue information was always
available, but this is not the case, and I think we're very far from it
on certain platforms. So I disagree that we abuse the prologue analyzer.
Sometimes, we don't have the choice.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-28 17:12 Joel Brobecker
2006-04-28 17:54 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-28 18:40 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-28 18:48 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2006-04-28 20:58 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-28 21:09 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-28 21:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-28 21:42 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-28 21:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-04-28 21:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-04-28 22:00 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-29 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-29 14:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-29 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-29 15:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-29 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-29 23:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-01 16:36 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-01 17:06 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-05-05 18:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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