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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: SH breakpoint problem
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B73007B.6090605@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B72FB2D.F62163BB@redhat.com>

> 
> This would be defined for the whole SH architecture then. What
> ramifications would it have? i.e. what would/could break?
> 
> It does seem a bit odd that after going to lengths to analyze the prologue
> etc. to determine the right address, it goes and basically ignores that in
> favour of the debug info. Why did it bother since it already knew the
> address of the start of the function?


Prologue analysis does many things: determines the address of the 
function proper; figures out what registes were saved where; and 
computes the frame base address.

GDB normally prefers debug info (hopefully the compiler knew what it was 
doing - er, except in this case) over hardwired analysis.

Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-09 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-06 19:45 Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-07  5:53 ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-07  7:26 ` Elena Zannoni
2001-08-07  7:33   ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-07  7:54     ` Elena Zannoni
2001-08-07  8:05       ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-09 14:49       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-09 16:52         ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-09 18:05           ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-10 14:24             ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-07 15:42 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-08-07 21:54   ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-08-07 22:46     ` Kevin Buettner
2001-08-09 12:48       ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-09 13:29         ` Kevin Buettner
2001-08-09 14:05           ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-09 14:28             ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-08-09 14:57             ` Kevin Buettner

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