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Re: SH breakpoint problem
On Aug 8, 1:54am, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2001, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com> wrote:
>
> > My opinion is that gdb should use the information obtained from
> > find_pc_line() only to refine the limit searched by the prologue
> > scanner. The prologue scanner needs to be taught that it must
> > never scan past an instruction which modifies the flow of control
> > (i.e, branch or call instructions).
>
> This would cause a yet-to-be-contributed port I worked on to stop the
> search too early, because some peculiarities of the ABI require
> function calls to be inserted in the prologue in certain
> circumstances.
That sort of thing is okay so long as you teach the prologue analyzer
about these special functions.
Kevin