From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ECOFF
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3jgiege.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1308191948550.8514@tp.orcam.me.uk> (Maciej W. Rozycki's message of "Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:20:51 +0100")
Maciej> The MIPS target wants to use minimal ECOFF debug information
Maciej> that is stored in ELF binaries in the so called PDR or Procedure
Maciej> Descriptor Record section [1].
Maciej> Support for PDR unwinding (mips-mdebug-tdep.[ch]) was removed a
Maciej> while ago from GDB sources
Maciej> I think this is a serious shortcoming of GDB on the MIPS target and a
Maciej> good argument in favour to having this PDR unwinding support.
It's fine by me if you want to resurrect all the code. I don't even
mind dropping my patch.
If you have a way to test the ECOFF code, then great. I'd appreciate it
if you could volunteer to test whatever patches modify these readers.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-20 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-19 18:19 Tom Tromey
2013-08-19 18:51 ` Mark Kettenis
2013-08-19 18:57 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-19 19:02 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-19 19:41 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-08-19 21:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-08-19 23:22 ` Stan Shebs
2013-08-20 15:12 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-08-20 15:20 ` Mark Kettenis
2013-08-20 16:19 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-08-20 15:19 ` Joseph S. Myers
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