Re: How to skip function prologues with stabs debug infomation?

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:06:44 +0200, Triple Yang wrote:
> I will give a C-like pseudocode to describe what I plan to do in
> function XXX_skip_prologue(), here XXX represents my architecture
> name.
> 
>     line = get_line_number(func_addr);
> 
>     next_line = find_next_statement_line_number(line); // take
> advantage of debug info
> 
>     addr = get_addr(nexe_line);
> 
> Here, if func_addr is the start address of a function, we actually
> skip the function prologue. (But I am not sure this idea is proper.)

Yes, it is rought what GDB already does for all the arches.

gdbarch_skip_prologue is there for the case you have no debug info (neither
DWARF nor STABS, no -g).  So it is good to implement gdbarch_skip_prologue but
it should be only based on instructions decoding in such case.


> And I guess gdb does the similar thing to step a source code line,
> which is of course arch-independent. But I don't know where those
> codes are placed. GDBing a gdb to locate them is time-consuming and
> tiring. I will be very grateful if you or someone else point it out.

I already stated here the GDB function is skip_prologue_sal.


Thanks,
Jan