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From: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn on LRA on all targets
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:21:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2A759520-2D62-472E-A97F-35E09B6E50F5@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2305152104010.11892@angie.orcam.me.uk>



> On May 15, 2023, at 5:09 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> I may choose to implement a non-DWARF unwinder instead, as the VAX stack 
> frame is always fully described by the hardware and there is never ever a 
> need for debug information to be able to decode any VAX stack frame (the 
> RET machine instruction uses the stack frame information to restore the 
> previous PC, FP, SP, AP and any static registers saved by CALLS).

That would make sense; it's like the heuristic unwinder found in some other targets (I remember the MIPS one, which worked fairly well and allowed debugging without useable debug data).

	paul


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-15 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-23 16:47 Segher Boessenkool
2023-04-23 17:01 ` Jeff Law
2023-04-23 20:23   ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-04-24  8:42   ` Andreas Schwab
2023-04-23 18:36 ` Paul Koning
2023-04-23 20:19   ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-04-23 18:56 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2023-04-23 20:33   ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-05-15 21:09     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2023-05-15 21:16       ` Sam James
2024-02-15 19:34         ` Sam James
2024-02-15 22:56           ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-02-16  1:41             ` Paul Koning
2024-02-16 10:22               ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-02-15 22:21       ` Paul Koning [this message]
2024-02-16 11:34         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-02-16 13:47           ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-02-16 14:23             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-02-16 14:31               ` Jakub Jelinek
2024-02-16 17:01                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-02-17  0:38                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-02-16 14:50           ` Paul Koning
2023-04-23 21:06 ` Uros Bizjak
2023-04-24  9:17   ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-04-24  9:46     ` Uros Bizjak
2023-04-29 14:38       ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-04-24  8:19 ` Richard Biener
2023-04-24  9:44   ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-04-30 19:52 ` Jeff Law
2023-04-29 13:37 Roger Sayle
2023-04-29 15:06 ` Jeff Law

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