From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Inferior function call command set
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 21:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16049.38488.94378.161876@casey.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB1916D.7020102@redhat.com>
Andrew Cagney writes:
> > Out of curiousity, is there any need to have a runtime choice?
>
> Entry point in ROM, non 1:1 code/stack, ...
Apologies, still confused.
[having spent the last few days buried in the guts of
hand-called-function support such things are very much on my
mind these days]
How does having an entry point in ROM affect things?
It appears to me that all AT_ENTRY_POINT does is use the entry point
address as a magic number that will "never appear" in user code.
[thus if the callee is returning to it you know you're back in the "stub"]
In my port I added the ability for the user to override
CALL_DUMMY_ADDRESS since the entry point is ambiguous/unspecified.
[THAT would be a very welcome addition to the mainline code. :-)]
Pproviding both AT_ENTRY_POINT and ON_STACK is _far_ more effort than
providing the ability to override what gdb uses for CALL_DUMMY_ADDRESS.
Perhaps what I should have done is just hardwire it to 42. 1/2 :-).
No claim is made that there isn't a need for the runtime
stack/entry-point choice. But I still don't understand the need for it.
[Not that anyone has to spend time clearing up my understanding of course;
but if it's not that much effort, or if other people are also curious ...]
> An addition to the testsuite is implicit.
Ah.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-01 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-01 20:55 Andrew Cagney
2003-05-01 21:12 ` Doug Evans
2003-05-01 21:28 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-01 21:49 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2003-05-01 22:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-01 23:00 ` Doug Evans
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