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Re: [PATCH] remove ECOFF
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:12:17 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ECOFF
- References: <1376936369-30712-1-git-send-email-tromey at redhat dot com> <alpine dot DEB dot 1 dot 10 dot 1308191948550 dot 8514 at tp dot orcam dot me dot uk>
Maciej> The MIPS target wants to use minimal ECOFF debug information
Maciej> that is stored in ELF binaries in the so called PDR or Procedure
Maciej> Descriptor Record section [1].
Maciej> Support for PDR unwinding (mips-mdebug-tdep.[ch]) was removed a
Maciej> while ago from GDB sources
Maciej> I think this is a serious shortcoming of GDB on the MIPS target and a
Maciej> good argument in favour to having this PDR unwinding support.
It's fine by me if you want to resurrect all the code. I don't even
mind dropping my patch.
If you have a way to test the ECOFF code, then great. I'd appreciate it
if you could volunteer to test whatever patches modify these readers.
Tom