mips64 sigaction changes

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Fri Mar 14 15:48:00 GMT 2003


On Mar 14, 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> wrote:

>> >> +/* NOTE: Please think twice before making any changes to the bits of
>> >> +   code below.  GDB needs some intimate knowledge about it to
>> >> +   recognize them as signal trampolines, and make backtraces through
>> >> +   signal handlers work right.  Important are both the names
>> >> +   (__restore_rt) and the exact instruction sequence.
>> >> +   If you ever feel the need to make any changes, please notify the
>> >> +   appropriate GDB maintainer.  */

> By recognizing the code, not by recognizing the names.  Only the i386
> GDB port does this to my knowledge.

Err...  I copied this bit from x86_64, IIRC.  Seems like it's
spreading :-)

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