From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3994 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2005 21:18:46 -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 3971 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jun 2005 21:18:40 -0000 Received: from legolas.inter.net.il (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:18:40 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-251-102.inter.net.il [83.130.251.102]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id EOV42794 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:18:37 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:18:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Michael Snyder CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <42A9F7F6.5050602@redhat.com> (message from Michael Snyder on Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:28:38 -0700) Subject: Re: The gdb x86 function prologue parser Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <85C775AE-3B05-431E-96D2-49EA9D1413E6@apple.com> <42A9F7F6.5050602@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00100.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:28:38 -0700 > From: Michael Snyder > CC: Jason Molenda , 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.