From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5550 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2003 00:07:16 -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 5541 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2003 00:07:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 2003 00:07:15 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E602B8F; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:07:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FAC33B3.2030403@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 00:07:00 -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: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: "J. Johnston" , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Kevin Buettner Subject: Re: RFA: ia64 portion of libunwind patch References: <3FA2B71A.3080905@redhat.com> <3FA2CA1B.7000502@redhat.com> <16290.59502.799536.383397@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3FAC12D3.2070207@redhat.com> <16300.8192.489647.740612@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3FAC2454.2030009@redhat.com> <16300.9949.513264.716812@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3FAC2D03.8070607@redhat.com> <16300.12503.585501.180768@napali.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00146.txt.bz2 >>>>>> On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:38:43 -0500, Andrew Cagney said: > > > Andrew> Draging that entire buffer (128k in the case of a program > Andrew> like GDB) across the remote link is going to raise a few > Andrew> eyebrows so a careful examination is justified. > > Oh. Can you remind me why gdb wouldn't be grabbing the unwind table > from the ELF binary instead? You don't drag the debug info over the > remote link either, right? Because it may not have the elf binary (at least not locally), and it may not have debug info. People still expect GDB to do something reasonable in those cases. Andrew