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Re: [RFC] Non-executable stack on SPARC


> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:48:19 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
> 
>    My line of thought is that it's IMHO fundamentally wrong to push
>    target- or architecture-specific details into the application level of
>    GDB, which is what infrun.c is.  infrun.c should deal with high-level
>    logic of handling a stopped inferior, it should not IMHO know about
>    intricacies of specific targets.
> 
> The question is to what extent this is an intricacy of a specific
> target.

I think that the set of signals, apart of SIGTRAP, that can express a
breakpoint on a given target/architecture is something infrun.c
shouldn't know about.


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