From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Oliva To: Kevin Buettner Cc: Jonathan Larmour , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: SH breakpoint problem Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 21:54:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3B6F5625.ADBD6F53@redhat.com> <1010807224211.ZM23418@ocotillo.lan> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00057.html On Aug 7, 2001, Kevin Buettner 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. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist *Please* write to mailing lists, not to me