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Re: The gdb x86 function prologue parser
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:28:38 -0700
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> CC: Jason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
> kettenis@jive.nl
>
> Prologue parsing is a black art, on its way to becoming a
> lost art thanks to our increasing dependance on dwarf cfi.
There are still quite a few platforms that cannot rely on CFI. Not to
mention that currently there are many situations where I can't get a
decent backtrace even with DWARF CFI.
> It would be great if Jason could preserve some of what he's
> having to relearn/reinvent -- but it wouldn't be fair of us
> to require this of him.
I didn't require, I said I'd appreciate if he did that.
Someone must remind people from time to time to try documenting the
internals. Otherwise gdbint.texinfo will never get better.