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Re: RFA/mips: Use ".pdr" sections generated by GAS
- From: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr at CS dot Berkeley dot EDU>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:49:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFA/mips: Use ".pdr" sections generated by GAS
- Reply-to: Hilfinger at CS dot Berkeley dot EDU
> > According to its documentation, exc_unwind on IRIX 6.5 currently uses
> > .debug_frame information for unwinding purposes (and its native
> > assembler now does not produce PDR sections there). I am not familiar
> > with the set of all MIPS platforms, so I am moved to ask whether it
> > would (1) be a good idea if or (2) be unnecessary for GDB to do the
> > same thing.
>
> Did the IRIX 6.5 assembler ever produce PDR sections? I was unaware of
> this.
Sorry for the confusing wording. I should have said simply that the
IRIX assembler no longer produces PDR information. (To be honest, I
really haven't followed the evolution of this software enough to know
when last the SGI tool chain DID produce this information, but am
piecing together scraps of historical data by reading out-of-date
comments on current #include files and historical hints in current
man pages.)
Paul