From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9797 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2002 20:13:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9709 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2002 20:13:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2002 20:13:12 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16XT0e-0005nZ-00; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 15:13:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:13:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Don Bowman , ''Stan Shebs' ' , ''Greg McGary' ' , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MIPS stack tracing Message-ID: <20020203151308.A22013@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Don Bowman , ''Stan Shebs' ' , ''Greg McGary' ' , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20020203111126.A15978@nevyn.them.org> <3C5D8018.2090605@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C5D8018.2090605@cygnus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer