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Re: [rfc] Remove "function descriptor" handling on ppc32
- From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, drow at false dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:01:26 -0300
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Remove "function descriptor" handling on ppc32
- References: <200805141731.m4EHVCwS018368@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:31 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Thus, this all appears to be dead code, and I'd prefer to remove it.
> I've tested the patch below with no change in behaviour on powerpc-linux
> and powerpc64-linux.
>
> Am I overlooking anything here?
By the way, the patch also made bfd_lookup_symbol in solib-svr4.c look
for symbols in data sections, and added a call to
gdbarch_convert_from_func_ptr_addr. Is that dead code as well?
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center