[rfc] ``pc'' -> resume_addr?

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Sat Apr 13 20:21:00 GMT 2002


It gets better ...

> Ok, I think I've figured out how this ``works'':
> 
> - target stops
> 
> - infrun has an initial look round.  If it doesn't think the read_pc() value is interesting, it resumes the target.  Thing is, I can't detect any write_pc() for this case - as best as I can tell it resumes the target without adjusting the PC.

Add:
- in looking around, it might create a frame (for PC_IN_CALL_DUMMY()) 
and that frame's PC won't have been adjusted.

> - Otherwise infrun calls bpstat_stop_status() and that will eventually call:
>     write_pc(read_pc()-decr);
> and patch up that PC value. Ulgh!

> - finally the block/frame is created.   This calls read_pc() and gets the ``fixed'' pc.

Add:
- since the frame (with a botched PC) may have previously been created, 
the top level frame->pc needs to be patched:

   /* Make sure that the current_frame's pc is correct.  This
      is a correction for setting up the frame info before doing
      DECR_PC_AFTER_BREAK */
   if (target_has_execution && get_current_frame ())
     (get_current_frame ())->pc = read_pc ();

:-)

Andrew



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