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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA 1/2] mips: Switch inferior function calls to ON_STACK method.
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514150034.GG10253@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1205141013580.11227@tp.orcam.me.uk>

>  I gave it yet more thinking and came to the conclusion that at least
>  for the MIPS target, where it is safe to use either way, but both
>  have some drawbacks, we should really apply both, switching
>  dynamically.  The reason is the stack may be unwritable for whatever
>  reason (e.g. not correctly set up), so we should try ON_STACK first
>  and if that fails (e.g. SP is NULL or writing to the stack has
>  faulted), then fall back to AT_ENTRY_POINT.  This is another corner
>  case however and I don't feel compelled to implement it right now.
>  Let's leave it for another sunny day in Cambridgeshire. ;)

Is that something we could detect at gdbarch init? (I don't think we
have a process at init time)

> 2012-05-14  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@codesourcery.com>
> 
> 	gdb/
> 	* mips-tdep.c (mips_push_dummy_code): Handle microMIPS code.

FWIW, the change looks good to me.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-03 19:03 Getting rid of AT_SYMBOL inferior call method Joel Brobecker
2012-05-03 19:03 ` [RFA 1/2] mips: Switch inferior function calls to ON_STACK method Joel Brobecker
2012-05-03 21:09   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-03 21:50     ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-03 23:29       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-04 20:58         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-04 21:19           ` Mark Kettenis
2012-05-04 23:25             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-05 11:45               ` Mark Kettenis
2012-05-08 15:08                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-08 16:06                   ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-08 20:26                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-08 20:43                       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-08 22:08                         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09  7:32                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-09  8:24                             ` Mark Kettenis
2012-05-09  9:14                               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-09 16:08                                 ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-09 14:35                               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-14  9:44                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-14 15:01                                   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-05-14 16:48                                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-06-11 10:14                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-09  6:21                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-04 22:41           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-04 21:34     ` Mark Kettenis
2012-05-05  1:31       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-03 21:44   ` Mark Kettenis
2012-05-03 21:58     ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-04  2:11       ` Yao Qi
2012-05-03 22:03   ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-03 19:03 ` [commit 2/2] Remove AT_SYMBOL Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09 14:37   ` Joel Brobecker

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