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

[Kotian, Deepak]

Thanks .
Correct, it is not straight forward. But any literature 
or any dcumnet on it.
Any help on this for anyone would be great.

Thanks and Regards
Deepak


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Cagney [mailto:cagney@gnu.org]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:25 PM
To: Kotian, Deepak
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: About the Stack pointer and Return Pointer pair in the core
file.


> 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