From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Received: (qmail 24888 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2002 18:23:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2002 18:23:27 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19543E54; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:23:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C5D8018.2090605@cygnus.com> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:29:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Don Bowman , ''Stan Shebs' ' , ''Greg McGary' ' , "'gdb@sources.redhat.com '" , "'echristo@redhat.com '" Subject: Re: MIPS stack tracing References: <20020203111126.A15978@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 > 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''. Andrew