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Re: mips64 sigaction changes
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:48:48PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com> wrote:
>
> >> >> +/* NOTE: Please think twice before making any changes to the bits of
> >> >> + code below. GDB needs some intimate knowledge about it to
> >> >> + recognize them as signal trampolines, and make backtraces through
> >> >> + signal handlers work right. Important are both the names
> >> >> + (__restore_rt) and the exact instruction sequence.
> >> >> + If you ever feel the need to make any changes, please notify the
> >> >> + appropriate GDB maintainer. */
>
> > By recognizing the code, not by recognizing the names. Only the i386
> > GDB port does this to my knowledge.
>
> Err... I copied this bit from x86_64, IIRC. Seems like it's
> spreading :-)
x86_64 is actually part of of the i386 port of GDB, more or less. And
there's a branch converting the less to more right now; it has almost
no separate code. Just like in GCC.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer