About the Stack pointer and Return Pointer pair in the core file.

Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
Mon Feb 23 15:54:00 GMT 2004


> Hi ,
> 
> We have observed that the Stack pointer and Return Pointer pairs
> in the core file is found at some location in the coredump file 
> for x86 architecture.
> I cannot find a similar pair in for IA-64 for coredump analysis, 
> Could not figure it in gdb source easily.
> could one please help in this, that would be great.

I suspect that you're fighting an uphill battle.  The ia64 does not have 
a simple straightforward stack arangement.  However, look at the unwind 
code in ia64-tdep.c.

Andrew




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