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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: The gdb x86 function prologue parser
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5qt9ahd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A9F7F6.5050602@redhat.com> (message from Michael Snyder on Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:28:38 -0700)

> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:28:38 -0700
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> CC: Jason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
>         kettenis@jive.nl
> 
> Prologue parsing is a black art, on its way to becoming a
> lost art thanks to our increasing dependance on dwarf cfi.

There are still quite a few platforms that cannot rely on CFI.  Not to
mention that currently there are many situations where I can't get a
decent backtrace even with DWARF CFI.

> It would be great if Jason could preserve some of what he's
> having to relearn/reinvent -- but it wouldn't be fair of us
> to require this of him.

I didn't require, I said I'd appreciate if he did that.

Someone must remind people from time to time to try documenting the
internals.  Otherwise gdbint.texinfo will never get better.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-10 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-08  5:51 Jason Molenda
2005-06-08 13:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-06-08 16:58   ` Jason Molenda
2005-06-12  7:48     ` Mark Kettenis
2005-06-12  8:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <3364FC4D-63FB-493B-9136-D118F74C13BB@mit.edu>
2005-06-12 13:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-12 14:28             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-06-13 18:21             ` Michael Snyder
2005-06-13 19:13               ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-08 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-08 17:01   ` Jason Molenda
2005-06-08 18:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-08 19:58   ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-09  6:26     ` Jason Molenda
2005-06-09  9:02       ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-10 20:23         ` Michael Snyder
2005-06-12  7:57       ` Mark Kettenis
2005-06-10 20:29   ` Michael Snyder
2005-06-10 21:18     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-06-12  7:07 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-06-12  8:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-13 22:04   ` Jason Molenda
2005-06-13 22:35     ` Mark Kettenis
2005-06-13 22:51       ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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