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Re: SH5 compact register numbering in gcc -> gdb interface
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> I was proposing only to change the SHcompact mapping, so that code
> compiled with the default options won't be affected. Moreover, there
> are still a number of bugs in gcc 3.1 that affect the SH5 port, some
> of which can only be fixed with changes to the machine-independent sources.
> I am working on this, but it is not feasible to finish this work in time
> for gcc 3.1 . Hence, I'd expect some gcc 3.2 snapshots to be better
> for SH5 than gcc 3.1 for production code.
>
> Another reason to switch to a post 3.1 compiler will be debugging speed.
> The prologue-disassembling slows backtraces considerably when debugging
> on real hardware. We are currently working on SH gcc emitting proper
> cfi information, and gdb making use of it. For SH4 this has already
> proved to make quite an improvement, and the gcc bug fixes for this
> are among the next patches I intend to put into the FSF gcc repository.
Humor me here.
How do you use dwarf2 cfi to unwind a compact register (saved on the
stack) back to a media register? In addition to the address of the
saved register you'll need to know that only part of the register was
saved. Does CFI describe this?
Andrew