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RE: About the Stack pointer and Return Pointer pair in the core file.
- From: "Kotian, Deepak" <Deepak dot Kotian at patni dot com>
- To: "Andrew Cagney" <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:06:39 -0500
- Subject: RE: About the Stack pointer and Return Pointer pair in the core file.
Thanks .
Correct, it is not straight forward. But any literature
or any dcumnet on it.
Any help on this for anyone would be great.
Thanks and Regards
Deepak
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Cagney [mailto:cagney@gnu.org]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:25 PM
To: Kotian, Deepak
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: About the Stack pointer and Return Pointer pair in the core
file.
> Hi ,
>
> We have observed that the Stack pointer and Return Pointer pairs
> in the core file is found at some location in the coredump file
> for x86 architecture.
> I cannot find a similar pair in for IA-64 for coredump analysis,
> Could not figure it in gdb source easily.
> could one please help in this, that would be great.
I suspect that you're fighting an uphill battle. The ia64 does not have
a simple straightforward stack arangement. However, look at the unwind
code in ia64-tdep.c.
Andrew