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Re: [PATCH] Add a new format letter to dump instructions backward
- From: Andrew Burgess <andrew dot burgess at embecosm dot com>
- To: Toshihito Kikuchi <k dot toshihito at yahoo dot de>
- Cc: "Paul_Koning at Dell dot com" <Paul_Koning at Dell dot com>, "palves at redhat dot com" <palves at redhat dot com>, "jhb at freebsd dot org" <jhb at freebsd dot org>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:04:20 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new format letter to dump instructions backward
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* Toshihito Kikuchi <k.toshihito@yahoo.de> [2016-01-26 05:36:58 +0000]:
> To answer the question from Paul, Pedro's guess is correct. I used
> symbol's line info to solve a correct frame. And yes, this feature
> does not work without debug information unfortunately.
If there's no debug information then just looking for symbols in the
same section would also be a reasonable guess. Most symbols appear
between instructions, not part way through an instruction.
Sounds like a useful feature.
Thanks,
Andrew