SH breakpoint problem

[Kevin Buettner]

On Aug 8,  1:54am, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Aug  7, 2001, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 
> > My opinion is that gdb should use the information obtained from
> > find_pc_line() only to refine the limit searched by the prologue
> > scanner.  The prologue scanner needs to be taught that it must
> > never scan past an instruction which modifies the flow of control
> > (i.e, branch or call instructions).
> 
> This would cause a yet-to-be-contributed port I worked on to stop the
> search too early, because some peculiarities of the ABI require
> function calls to be inserted in the prologue in certain
> circumstances.

That sort of thing is okay so long as you teach the prologue analyzer
about these special functions.

Kevin