From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18249 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2002 23:25:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18242 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2002 23:25:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2002 23:25:10 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176053D1B; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:25:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CBF55DF.4010007@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:25:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: mec@shout.net, fnasser@redhat.com, cagney@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix xfail Sparc pattern References: <3CBEF272.3060500@cygnus.com> <20020418.145531.68100471.davem@redhat.com> <3CBF48C9.30201@cygnus.com> <20020418.152834.121227947.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00616.txt.bz2 > What I am referring to more specifically is the dummy frame > descriptors which the generic dummy frame support creates and > keeps track of. That is generic, and independant of the > CALL_DUMMY mechanism a target uses. > > That aspect is perfect, and I implemented something similar in my > sparc patches. That bit of the generic dummy frame bits could be > reused instead of duplicating such state tracking in sparc specific > code. > > Isn't it possible to use ON_STACK for dummy frames and still use > the dummy frame tracking support provided by generic dummy frames? > I don't see anything specific to the CALL_DUMMY mechanism used in > those structures. Yes, that is the theory. See the very recent patch: [RFA] Save the call dummy address http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-04/msg00501.html Andrew