From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15374 invoked by alias); 14 May 2008 19:19:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 15365 invoked by uid 22791); 14 May 2008 19:19:46 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 May 2008 19:19:19 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C73280002; Wed, 14 May 2008 19:19:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761BF80001; Wed, 14 May 2008 19:19:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JwMVQ-0004cN-MW; Wed, 14 May 2008 15:19:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: Ulrich Weigand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc] Remove "function descriptor" handling on ppc32 Message-ID: <20080514191916.GA17733@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Thiago Jung Bauermann , Ulrich Weigand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200805141731.m4EHVCwS018368@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <1210791686.617.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1210791686.617.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00447.txt.bz2 On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:01:26PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: > By the way, the patch also made bfd_lookup_symbol in solib-svr4.c look > for symbols in data sections, and added a call to > gdbarch_convert_from_func_ptr_addr. Is that dead code as well? No, I don't think so. It may be used on targets which really do use descriptors. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery