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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Why do we have two ways of finding sniffers?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt23bmu1h6v.fsf@theseus.home.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510200846.j9K8k9ou011894@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (Mark Kettenis's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:46:09 +0200 (CEST)")


Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
>> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
>> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:16:46 -0700
>> 
>> I don't understand why we need both alternatives.  Shouldn't it be
>> sufficient to simply have each entry in the list point to a function
>> that expects the next frame's frame_info and a prologue cache, and
>> returns a 'struct frame_unwind *' or zero?
>
> I don't think there is a *technical* reason why we need both
> alternatives.  It's more a matter that we had (and still have to some
> extent) a pretty long list of basically unmainted targets.  So
> converting frame_unwind_append_sniffer() into
> frame_unwind_append_unwinder() is difficult to accomplish.  But you
> should really answer Andrew about this since he wrote that code.

Okay.  I figured all the frame-unwind.c code was relatively new, so
diversity was probably deliberate.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-22  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-20  0:18 Jim Blandy
2005-10-20  0:25 ` Jim Blandy
2005-10-20  8:46 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-10-22  1:20   ` Jim Blandy [this message]

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