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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Non-executable stack on SPARC
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <401E968C.1020908@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402011754.i11HsTdQ000570@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>

>    Assuming that for VLIW gdb replaces the entire instruction bundle with a 
>    breakpoint, a breakpoint instruction can only ever generate a sigtrap 
>    (et.al.) (if executed) or sigsegv (if not accessible) so provided there 
>    is a breakpoint at the PC I don't think there is any possability of 
>    confusion (but again ignore decr pc after break :-).
> 
> So does this mean you're convinced that we can add SIGSEGV to the list
> currently consisting of SIGILL and SIGEMT unconditionally?  I haven't
> seen any ill effects on IA-32 and AMD64 (which are decr pc after
> break).  I'll happilly check in the origional patch in mainline too.

We've found no evidence to the contrary - if something later breaks we 
can add that to the testsuite.

Andrew



      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-02 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25 23:50 Mark Kettenis
2004-01-25 23:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-26  6:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-26  6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-26 12:42   ` Mark Kettenis
2004-01-27  8:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-01 17:48       ` Mark Kettenis
2004-02-01 20:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-02 18:37           ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-26 16:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-27  8:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-01 17:54   ` Mark Kettenis
2004-02-02 18:27     ` Andrew Cagney [this message]

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