From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30267 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2013 15:12:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 30248 invoked by uid 89); 20 Aug 2013 15:12:21 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:12:20 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7KFCI8D018883 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:12:18 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-142.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.142]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r7KFCHgs017934 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:12:18 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ECOFF References: <1376936369-30712-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:12:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Maciej W. Rozycki's message of "Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:20:51 +0100") Message-ID: <87k3jgiege.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00540.txt.bz2 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