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Re: The gdb x86 function prologue parser
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:00:57 -0700
> From: Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, kettenis@jive.nl
>
> > Last, but not least, I'd surely appreciate some write-up, even in
> > plain ASCII, about how prologue analyzers in general and the x86 one
> > in particular work: that stuff is sorely needed in gdbint.texinfo.
>
> OK, I'll look over gdbint next week and see what it says
Alas, I think you will find that it says exactly nothing about this
important issue.
> and where something like that might fit in.
There's a section called "Frames" in the "Algorithms" node. I think
either a subsection of "Frame" or even a separate section "Function
prologue analysis" in that node would be a good place for this kind of
info.
> Thanks for the comments,
Thanks for working on this.