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Re: [PATCH+DOC] Print registers not saved in the frame as "<not saved>", instead of "<optimized out>".
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Cc: palves at redhat dot com, aburgess at broadcom dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:53:15 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH+DOC] Print registers not saved in the frame as "<not saved>", instead of "<optimized out>".
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:47:24 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: palves@redhat.com, aburgess@broadcom.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl
>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:30:07 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > Also, shouldn't we mention optimizations as (the main) reason for
> > registers being unavailable?
>
> I don't consider optimisations as an important cause of registers not
> being saved.
The question is: does it happen in practice? If it does, I think we
should mention that, because it's important to let the users know that
recompiling without optimizations might remove this nuisance.