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Re: [patch/rfa/hppa] Use frame pointer for unwinding


> What's the check for NORMAL_FRAME about?  Isn't hppa_frame_cache only
> used for normal frames? 

hppa_frame_cache is only used when the current frame is a NORMAL_FRAME,
but the next frame can be anything.

> All I can say is that this code
> tends to have too much special cases, but that's not your fault...

yeah, it's really a bowl of spaghetti. I have some ideas about unifying
some of the code reading stuff and making it hopefully a bit cleaner.
got a few more bugs to fix first :)

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/


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