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
next prev parent 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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