Re: MIPS stack tracing

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:23:20PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >Also, from scanning the sources, I would have to guess that the
> >>alpha architecture is suffering the same problem.
> >
> >
> >Perhaps, perhaps not.  It depends whether Alpha still uses .mdebug.
> >
> >.mdebug is the ECOFF/Third-Eye debugging info format; binutils recently
> >switched to generating stabs-in-ELF like other targets instead.
> >
> >To my complete surprise, we apparently get PDR information out of the
> >.mdebug section.  This is somewhat bizarre, as it is also present in a
> >.pdr section independent of data format.  We need to read in this
> >information.  I'll investigate next week (if no one beats me to it :).
> 
> 
> It would go back to SGI (Hmm, didn't sgi switch to dwarf2?) which was 
> using mdebug info.  A number of embedded MIPS toolchains would have been 
> mdebug for compatability (I know this as I filed gdb/150, gdb/152 and 
> gdb/149) and I have a sinking feeling that they haven't yet ``just gone 
> away''.

Is gdb/150 still valid?  I thought I remembered that being fixed.  But
if it is, I may take a potshot at it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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