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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Prologue analysis interface
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051123022325.GU1635@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051123020455.GA2247@nevyn.them.org>

> The frame pointer bits do involve some target heuristics.  I think we
> could do away with that, if we had reason to (i.e. an interesting
> target which didn't use a fixed register for this).  But I'm not
> suggesting it until we have such a target, hopefully not for a long
> time.

Not sure if this is relevant, but the HPPA ABI says that when there
is a frame pointer, it is either in r3 or r4, depending on the frame
size (IIRC). GCC doesn't follow the ABI, and always uses r3, but I am
pretty sure that the HP C compiler does follow that convention...

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-23  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-22 19:30 Jim Blandy
2005-11-22 19:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-23  0:20   ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-23  2:14     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-23  2:52       ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2005-11-23  3:52         ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-23 16:56           ` Ulrich Weigand
2005-11-23 18:37             ` Joel Brobecker
2005-11-24  6:21               ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-24 10:21             ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-24 17:18               ` Ulrich Weigand
2005-11-25  3:06                 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-23  3:14       ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-23  6:18         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-23 14:54       ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-01-27 17:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-27 18:25   ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-28 13:40     ` Jim Blandy

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