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Re: [patch/rfa] allow unwinding "past main" for dummy frames
> Some sense, but not good sense.
>
> Can we edit the space registers ourselves? If so, why don't we rely on
> that? I'm not talking about the call, just the return. So generate a
> call to __gcc_plt_call with a return address anywhere you please, and
> after the dummy call when we restore the saved regcache the space
> registers will be right again. So you could just use _start.
the problem is precisely that ... the register that we need to restore
(pcsqh/pcsqt) cannot be written to by gdb :(
randolph
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Randolph Chung
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