From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>,
Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: %ebp-based backtrace patch
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090706202103.GA9412@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0mzlbhy3m8.fsf@fche.csb>
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:10:23PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
> > A number of Linux distributions are carrying the attached patch from
> > Michael Matz. [...]
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390722#c25
> >[...]
> > * i386-tdep.c (i386_frame_cache): Assume anonymous functions use
> > a frame pointer.
> >[...]
>
> Could gdb partially disassemble such functions to check
> whether %ebp is likely being used as this heuristic expects?
I don't think so, but maybe someone else will come up with a way.
Since we don't know the function's start address, we could be anywhere
in the function.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-06 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-06 18:33 Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-06 20:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-07-06 20:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-07-07 12:15 ` Michael Matz
2009-07-07 13:19 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-07-07 13:49 ` Michael Matz
2009-07-06 21:57 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-07-07 12:00 ` Michael Matz
2009-07-07 13:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-07 13:07 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-07-08 9:01 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-07-08 12:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-12-27 16:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-12-27 21:37 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-12-27 22:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-02-01 19:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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