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Re: [rfc] Unwind the ARM CPSR


On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:30:13PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > I think it is a very bad idea.  It will take ages before all targets
> > are converted, and having two functions to do the same thing will be
> > even more confusing.
> 
> Yes, that's true; it will be confusing.  I've taken the opportunity to
> work on a related project at the same time though and so far I like
> the shape of the result:

By the way: if we do make this switch, I will personally commit to
fixing every single unwinder in GDB before the next release and
eliminating all traces of the current prev_register method.

I sure hope someone appreciates that offer enough to help.  I think
I'm out of my mind.  There are 68 of them in the source tree now and
they have tendrils all over the place.  But I did my share of shouting
about how much of GDB was deprecated and then left to rot; I do not
want to contribute to the problem.

I'm not volunteering to test all of them, but I'll test the ones
I can and make mechanical fixes to the rest.  

Fortunately about half of those use trad-frame.c.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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