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From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFA: general prologue analysis framework
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mtu64s9roo1.fsf@scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051007213028.GA2371@nevyn.them.org>

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> If you're guaranteed that the compiler only adjusts the stack pointer
> by constant amounts, either in the prologue or down and then up again
> within a basic block, maybe it would be useful.  But very few compilers
> behave that way.
> 
> Did your compiler really give you that guarantee?

Observationally, it only ever adjusted the stack pointer by constant
amounts, though it did it wherever it felt like. I don't think the
compiler was smart enough to do anything more complicated than
constant adjustments.

As far as actual guarantees, I have no idea. It was a binary product
and my customer was barely on speaking terms with their compiler
vendor.

        - Nathan


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-07 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-07 20:39 Jim Blandy
2005-10-07 21:25 ` Nathan J. Williams
2005-10-07 21:30   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-07 21:41     ` Nathan J. Williams [this message]
2005-10-08  7:02       ` Jim Blandy
2005-10-08  7:01   ` Jim Blandy
2005-10-08 16:00     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-09 20:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-13  0:20   ` Jim Blandy
2005-10-13  1:04     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-13 13:50     ` Ulrich Weigand
2005-10-13 17:17       ` Jim Blandy
2005-10-13 17:48         ` Ulrich Weigand
2005-10-13 18:03           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-14 18:13           ` Jim Blandy
2005-10-17 18:52             ` Ulrich Weigand
2005-10-17 20:28               ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-23  2:56                 ` Ulrich Weigand
2005-10-15 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-17 20:32   ` Jim Blandy
2005-10-19  8:55     ` Eli Zaretskii

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