Command to break before exiting stack frame?
Simon Marchi
simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Sun Mar 17 00:23:00 GMT 2019
On 2019-03-16 20:00, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Mär 16 2019, Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.cooper@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't imagine that I am the first person to suggest or request this.
>> Are
>> there any architectural or practical reasons as to why this is might
>> be
>> difficult?
>
> There may not even be a place where the frame is exited in the current
> function due to tail call. Also, inline literal pools or jump tables
> can result in false positives when searching for return insns.
>
> Andreas.
I suppose that the list of all function exit points (regardless of
whether it is a jump or real return) is an information that the compiler
could theoretically produce and encode in the DWARF information?
Simon
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