Re: [COMMIT] Avoid unnecessary indirection when decoding DWARF CFI

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

Mark Kettenis wrote:
> This fixes the problems for me.  It's better to skip the indirection
> here anyway, since it will save a memory read and thus avoids any
> problems with that.
> 
> Committed,
> 
> Mark
> 
> P.S. Andrew, can you test it on your systems.  I still like to get
> this on the branch since it fixes a nasty problem on SPARC.  But it
> can wait until 6.3.1.

Yes, it fixes the problem I was seeing.  6.3.1 is ok, but not 6.3.

Andrew

> Index: ChangeLog
> from  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* dwarf2-frame.c (decode_frame_entry_1): Avoid indirection when
> 	skipping a personality routine in a CIE augmentation.
> 
> Index: dwarf2-frame.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/dwarf2-frame.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.42
> diff -u -p -r1.42 dwarf2-frame.c
> --- dwarf2-frame.c 5 Nov 2004 15:16:44 -0000 1.42
> +++ dwarf2-frame.c 5 Nov 2004 22:30:07 -0000
> @@ -1380,8 +1380,8 @@ decode_frame_entry_1 (struct comp_unit *
>  	  /* "P" indicates a personality routine in the CIE augmentation.  */
>  	  else if (*augmentation == 'P')
>  	    {
> -	      /* Skip.  */
> -	      unsigned char encoding = *buf++;
> +	      /* Skip.  Avoid indirection since we throw away the result.  */
> +	      unsigned char encoding = (*buf++) & ~DW_EH_PE_indirect;
>  	      read_encoded_value (unit, encoding, buf, &bytes_read);
>  	      buf += bytes_read;
>  	      augmentation++;
>