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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.cooper@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Command to break before exiting stack frame?
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va0i74jq.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEndGgToidTsVOhwvV=9RFf=nYWwK+3_qWheYJ8JtoNez3Pq8w@mail.gmail.com>	(Justin Paston-Cooper's message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2019 23:15:06 +0000")

On Mär 16 2019, Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.cooper@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't imagine that I am the first person to suggest or request this. Are
> there any architectural or practical reasons as to why this is might be
> difficult?

There may not even be a place where the frame is exited in the current
function due to tail call.  Also, inline literal pools or jump tables
can result in false positives when searching for return insns.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-17  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-16 23:15 Justin Paston-Cooper
2019-03-17  0:01 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-03-17  0:23   ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-17 13:59     ` Justin Paston-Cooper
2019-03-19 15:42       ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-19 20:44         ` Justin Paston-Cooper
2019-03-19 15:35     ` Tom Tromey

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