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Re: RFA: general prologue analysis framework

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
Cc: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw at wasabisystems dot com>,gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:00:05 -0400
Subject: Re: RFA: general prologue analysis framework
References: <m3y8568as0.fsf@alligator.red-bean.com> <mtu8xx5rped.fsf@scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu> <vt23bncmr0i.fsf@theseus.home.>

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:01:17AM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I'm not sure this has any practical value, but it's fun to think
> about.  I wonder if there are cool things we could do if we had such
> detailed information about the machine code we were looking at.  Could
> we step through heavily reordered code better?

I can't see how it would be useful for that; but I've written before
about the sorts of things we could do with detailed knowledge of what
machine code does.  For instance, you can single-step over breakpoints
much more efficiently in some caess.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

References:
- RFA: general prologue analysis framework
  - From: Jim Blandy
- Re: RFA: general prologue analysis framework
  - From: Nathan J. Williams
- Re: RFA: general prologue analysis framework
  - From: Jim Blandy

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