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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [7.5] PATCH: PR backtrace/14646 [x32] backtrace doesn't work
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121021015636.GD3050@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121020234741.GA3626@gmail.com>

> This patch backports the fix from trunk to 7.5 branch.  Tested on
> Linux/x86-64 and Linux/x32.  OK to install?
[...]
> 	PR backtrace/14646
> 	PR gdb/14647
> 	* i386-tdep.h (gdbarch_tdep): Remove sp_regnum_from_eax and
> 	pc_regnum_from_eax.
> 	* i386-tdep.c (i386_gdbarch_init): Don't use sp_regnum_from_eax
> 	nor pc_regnum_from_eax.
> 	* amd64-tdep.c (amd64_x32_init_abi): Don't set sp_regnum_from_eax
> 	nor pc_regnum_from_eax.

I'm sorry to say that I am not comfortable at all with this going
in the 7.5 branch. If Mark is super confident, then OK, but this is
touching sp/pc handling for all x86 and x86-64 targets. And I don't
think that the issue this patch is fixing is that critical.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-21  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-20 23:47 H.J. Lu
2012-10-21  1:56 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-10-21  2:06   ` H.J. Lu
2012-11-09  0:15   ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-09  9:59     ` Mark Kettenis
2012-11-09 16:54       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-11-10  0:53         ` H.J. Lu

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