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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:46:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [RFA] fix popping of dummy frame if inferior gets signal with  	unwindonsignal
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:50:13PM +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>> > I'm not sure what the point is of having two copies of the regcache
>> > preserved across the full extent of the inferior call ...
>>
>> Maybe in case we get to somewhere we can not backtrace from?
>
> OK, good point.  The inf_status will always work ...

I don't understand why two copies are needed.
Can either of you elaborate?