[PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
Fri Aug 6 20:29:00 GMT 2004


>    Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:53:13 +0300
>    From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
>    > Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:18:51 -0400
>    > From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>    > 
>    > Should this be back-ported?
> 
>    Probably, especially if we are going to have GDB 6.2.1.  This bug
>    means that anyone who uses GCC 3.3 and later will see bogus backtraces
>    in optimized programs.
> 
> I was under the impression that it only affected GCC 3.4.  Is GCC 3.3
> affected too Eli?
> 
> I'd really like this to get some exposure in HEAD before backporting
> it, but otherwise I do agree.

Ah.  We need to push the MIPS fixes out fairly quickly.  Sounds like 
this should be held back, perhaphs for 6.3 or a 6.2.2.

Andrew




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