Re: SH breakpoint problem

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>]

On Aug  7, 2001, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com> wrote:

> My opinion is that gdb should use the information obtained from
> find_pc_line() only to refine the limit searched by the prologue
> scanner.  The prologue scanner needs to be taught that it must
> never scan past an instruction which modifies the flow of control
> (i.e, branch or call instructions).

This would cause a yet-to-be-contributed port I worked on to stop the
search too early, because some peculiarities of the ABI require
function calls to be inserted in the prologue in certain
circumstances.

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