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Re: The gdb x86 function prologue parser

> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, jason-swarelist@molenda.com,
>         gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 07:59:01 -0400
> 
> (2) gets used by GDB when it wants to know where to set a breakpoint  
> (the idea being that when you say "break foo", it wants to insert the  
> breakpoint in foo() after the prologue has been fully executed).
> 
> It also gets used where GDB wants to know if it is inside a function  
> prologue for some reason (for example, so "next" knows if it has  
> stepped into a new function, or simply jumped interprocedurally).

Thanks.

(I'm collecting info for gdbint.texinfo, that's why I asked.)
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