Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Andrew Cagney
2004-08-06T20:29:55Z

> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:53:13 +0300
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> > Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:18:51 -0400
> > From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> >
> > Should this be back-ported?
>
> Probably, especially if we are going to have GDB 6.2.1. This bug
> means that anyone who uses GCC 3.3 and later will see bogus backtraces
> in optimized programs.
>
> I was under the impression that it only affected GCC 3.4. Is GCC 3.3
> affected too Eli?
>
> I'd really like this to get some exposure in HEAD before backporting
> it, but otherwise I do agree.

Ah. We need to push the MIPS fixes out fairly quickly. Sounds like
this should be held back, perhaphs for 6.3 or a 6.2.2.

Andrew