Re: inconsistent sigtramp code in mips target

Andrew Cagney
2003-10-29T22:27:42Z

> The logical patch would be to move the special cases up front,
> but I have no way to test this out (no access to a MIPS UNIX
> platform).
>
> On the other hand this isn't purely academic. I came across this
> because I need to define a custom sigtramp frame for our own
> MIPS embedded platform. It was baffling for a while that my
> modification to the SP_REGNUM override had no effect.

Rather than the MIPS, check the x86 family for how to add a custom
sigtramp handler (ex, i386_sigtramp_frame_sniffer). Hopefully the new
mechanism is less baffling - the current MIPS code is not a good reference.

Andrew