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Re: [rfc] Frame based register cache / frame->unwind
- From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:14:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Frame based register cache / frame->unwind
- References: <3CB9ED82.8050007@cygnus.com>
On Apr 14, 4:58pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> I'm not too worried about the apparent 2% overhead per frame create
> though. With the patch applied, the code ends up maintaining both this
> new cache and the old ->saved_regs table. Rewriting a target to just
> use the ->unwind_cache, should, I think, claw back the 2% and then some
> - less need to go out to the target.
I'm puzzled. Assuming you don't have dwarf2cfi or the like, how do you
avoid maintaining the old ->saved_regs table?
Hmm... I see that the unwind cache has an ``addr'' field. Does that
mean that that the prologue analysis function calls
frame_supply_unwound_register() to set this field?
What is the ``optimized'' flag (in the frame cache) used for?
Kevin