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Re: Enable frame-base before frame-unwind?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:02:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: Enable frame-base before frame-unwind?
- References: <3EF9C2F1.7040904@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:42:41AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Here's a new theory on how to migrate to the unwind code:
>
> Enable frame-base before frame-unwind.
>
> Why? The frame-unwind code can't be enabled until frame-base is working
> anyway. Since frame-base is an almost direct replacement for
> FRAME_LOCALS_ADDRESS and FRAME_ARGS_ADDRESS, and the return values for
> the old/new methods are the same, I think getting frame-base working is
> going to be much easier than getting frame-unwind working. Since
> frame-base and frame-unwind share the prologue analysis code, debugging
> it with the less harmful frame-base should make life easier.
>
> Any one want to prove the theory?
... sure.
I think you've answered this once already, but is there a list of
routines that have needed to change, so far? Or do I need to put one
together as I go along?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer