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Re: MIPS stack tracing
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:23:20PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >Also, from scanning the sources, I would have to guess that the
> >>alpha architecture is suffering the same problem.
> >
> >
> >Perhaps, perhaps not. It depends whether Alpha still uses .mdebug.
> >
> >.mdebug is the ECOFF/Third-Eye debugging info format; binutils recently
> >switched to generating stabs-in-ELF like other targets instead.
> >
> >To my complete surprise, we apparently get PDR information out of the
> >.mdebug section. This is somewhat bizarre, as it is also present in a
> >.pdr section independent of data format. We need to read in this
> >information. I'll investigate next week (if no one beats me to it :).
>
>
> It would go back to SGI (Hmm, didn't sgi switch to dwarf2?) which was
> using mdebug info. A number of embedded MIPS toolchains would have been
> mdebug for compatability (I know this as I filed gdb/150, gdb/152 and
> gdb/149) and I have a sinking feeling that they haven't yet ``just gone
> away''.
Is gdb/150 still valid? I thought I remembered that being fixed. But
if it is, I may take a potshot at it.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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