From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22016 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2006 15:52:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 22000 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jul 2006 15:52:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lon-del-02.spheriq.net (HELO lon-del-02.spheriq.net) (195.46.50.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:16 +0000 Received: from lon-out-02.spheriq.net ([195.46.50.130]) by lon-del-02.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k6LFqDFF021506 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:13 GMT Received: from lon-cus-01.spheriq.net (lon-cus-01.spheriq.net [195.46.50.37]) by lon-out-02.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k6LFqB0d028794 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:11 GMT Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com (beta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.1.35]) by lon-cus-01.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k6LFqARk014799 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:10 GMT Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (ns2.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 3280DDA42 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.bri.st.com (mail1.bri.st.com [164.129.8.218]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 0790C47591 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [164.129.15.13] (bri1043.bri.st.com [164.129.15.13]) by mail1.bri.st.com (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id CHV54558 (AUTH stubbsa); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:52:09 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <44C0F828.4090807@st.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:00 -0000 From: Andrew STUBBS User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Move the frame zero PC check earlier References: <1147815745.3672.163.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060517155729.GF27234@adacore.com> <446C3EB3.1040606@st.com> <1147969938.3672.168.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> <200605182004.k4IK49Eh003764@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200605202129.k4KLT4g4014877@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060521020434.GA9432@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20060521020434.GA9432@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00296.txt.bz2 Did anything more happen to this since May? This is a feature I would like to see. Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:29:04PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> I actually think that something like that is the way to go. It's >> closely related to what Dan wrote about in: >> >> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2006-05/msg00109.html >> >> and I'd like to have a go at implementing option #2 in that mail. > > That (the frame unwinder end-of-stack method) wouldn't actually help > with this problem; that's why I sent the two separately (they were > originally the same message when I was writing it). The architecture > unwinder could report a saved pc of zero as terminating the stack, but > in all the cases I'm interested in, the DWARF-2 unwinder is actually > used for the bottom frame. > >> Unfortunately I'm leaving for a a four-week trip tomorrow. I won't be >> able to read my mail for most of the time between now and june 17. > > Well, enjoy your trip. I have a thousand different things that need > merging, and I'll be working on them over the coming weeks; but it > won't do me any harm to table this one until we have time to discuss it > further, as long as we've deliberately postponed it rather than let it > fall through :-) > > So, I shall not pursue this patch right now, and we'll discuss it later > (probably not until July; the GCC Summit at the end of June is going to > wreck my schedule around when you get back). Thanks for all the > comments! >