From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10933 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2005 18:03:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10872 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jun 2005 18:03:33 -0000 Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:03:33 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-165-31.inter.net.il [84.228.165.31]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id BMD04131 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:03:08 +0300 (IDT) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:03:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Jason Molenda CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, kettenis@jive.nl In-reply-to: <20050608100057.A84229@molenda.com> (message from Jason Molenda on Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:00:57 -0700) Subject: Re: The gdb x86 function prologue parser Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <85C775AE-3B05-431E-96D2-49EA9D1413E6@apple.com> <20050608100057.A84229@molenda.com> X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:00:57 -0700 > From: Jason Molenda > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, kettenis@jive.nl > > > Last, but not least, I'd surely appreciate some write-up, even in > > plain ASCII, about how prologue analyzers in general and the x86 one > > in particular work: that stuff is sorely needed in gdbint.texinfo. > > OK, I'll look over gdbint next week and see what it says Alas, I think you will find that it says exactly nothing about this important issue. > and where something like that might fit in. There's a section called "Frames" in the "Algorithms" node. I think either a subsection of "Frame" or even a separate section "Function prologue analysis" in that node would be a good place for this kind of info. > Thanks for the comments, Thanks for working on this.