Re: inconsistent sigtramp code in mips target

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-29T22:30:12Z

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer