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Re: [RFA] x86 - jump instruction after the prologue
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- To: drow at false dot org
- Cc: guitton at act-europe dot fr, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:06:22 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [RFA] x86 - jump instruction after the prologue
- References: <20040419173249.GA22201@act-europe.fr> <20040427163725.GA7319@act-europe.fr> <200404291624.i3TGO7PP003462@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <20040510202721.GB15632@nevyn.them.org> <20040512113101.GA1996@act-europe.fr> <20040808213614.GA20400@nevyn.them.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:36:15 -0400
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:31:01PM +0200, Jerome Guitton wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz (drow@false.org):
>
> > Also, should we write i386-prologue.c in assembly to avoid this
> > problem? That's what Fred did for SH to avoid a similar difficulty.
>
> Can't we compile this file without debug info?
Yes indeed, and that fixes it.
[snip]
In the mean time, this is a test of a prologue analyzer. Compiling it
without debug information seems reasonable to me. Tested on
i686-pc-linux-gnu, OK?
Tested on i386-unknown-freebsd4.7 (which uses stabs). Works fine, so
yes OK. Thanks for looking into this.
Mark