From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15344 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2009 18:31:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 15336 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Oct 2009 18:31:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:31:29 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF052BAC06; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id sC7KQvUnIF8i; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899892BAC7C; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A25EF58A0; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:31:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: Michael Eager , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for Xilinx MicroBlaze Message-ID: <20091015183116.GE5272@adacore.com> References: <4AD74E86.1020500@eagercon.com> <20091015164724.GC5272@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: 2009-10/txt/msg00352.txt.bz2 > In fact I'd be interested to hear how gdb has dealt with this problem in > the past. I'm also sure this won't be the last time we're in this > situation. As far as I know, we have been trying to be accomodating, but not at the cost of doing the wrong thing. This should have been fixed in the compiler since the beginning, but now users are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I don't know much how CIEs are processed in GDB, so I don't know offhand how we can provide any kind of info back to the CIE consumer in mb-tdep. -- Joel