Re: inconsistent sigtramp code in mips target

Andrew Cagney
2003-10-29T22:50:03Z

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:27:40PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> >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.
>
>
> But since he's got a MIPS target, the frame sniffers won't help him at
> all, will they? They can't be used until the MIPS is converted.

Looks like Kevin may have drawn the short straw.

Andrew