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Re: RFA: DW_AT_frame_base fix for complicated frames
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:03:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFA: DW_AT_frame_base fix for complicated frames
- References: <20031002165606.GA22819@nevyn.them.org> <vt23cebikyv.fsf@zenia.home> <20031009142637.GC29621@nevyn.them.org> <3F857B4B.9000708@redhat.com> <20031124043408.GA19791@nevyn.them.org> <3FC22B93.1080106@gnu.org>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:14:19AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >>
> >
> >>>Thanks. I've committed this to trunk and branch. I also moved this to
> >>>the branch:
> >>>
> >>>2003-10-09 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> >>>
> >>> Merge from mainline:
> >>> 2003-07-31 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> >>>
> >>> * dwarf2read.c (new_symbol): Use var_decode_location for
> >>> parameters.
> >>>
> >>>Location expressions and lists should work reasonably well on both now.
> >
> >>
> >>Can you please add something to the NEWS file. That way the 6.0.1
> >>announcement will include information letting the user decide if they
> >>need to upgrade.
> >
> >
> >Going through my email backlog...
> >
> >Should I bother, or have we written off 6.0.1?
>
> I suspect 6.0.1 is a writeoff, but the NEWS entry in mainline will still
> help.
Good idea. I've done this.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
2003-11-24 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
* NEWS: Mention improved location expression support.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.126
diff -u -p -r1.126 NEWS
--- NEWS 18 Oct 2003 18:41:22 -0000 1.126
+++ NEWS 24 Nov 2003 17:02:00 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
*** Changes since GDB 6.0:
+* DWARF 2 Location Expressions
+
+GDB support for location expressions has been extended to support function
+arguments and frame bases. Older versions of GDB could crash when they
+encountered these.
+
* New native configurations
NetBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-netbsd*