From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26617 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2003 22:31:50 -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 26609 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2003 22:31:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2003 22:31:49 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB29E2B89; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F9856D5.7020904@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:31:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Buettner Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa:ppc64] Use target in convert_from_func_ptr_addr References: <3F9730C3.1040308@redhat.com> <1031023160017.ZM13795@localhost.localdomain> <3F980124.6050409@redhat.com> <1031023171155.ZM14125@localhost.localdomain> <3F9841E0.5080700@redhat.com> <1031023212255.ZM1334@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00708.txt.bz2 > I'm trying to understand where you're going with these changes. See my most recent posts to gdb@, along with the archives. There is a long standing and oft repeated goal of cleaning up the target stack. In part making it more OO. > Will a GDB user see enhanced functionality as a > result? I guess so. At present FSF's GDB when debugging shared libraries on GNU/Linux does this: (top-gdb) run Starting program: /home/cagney/PENDING/YYYY-MM-DD-target-convert-func/64/gdb/gdb Warning: Cannot insert breakpoint -1. Error accessing memory address 0x7fdffec35c: Input/output error. (top-gdb) Andrew