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Re: [Patch, moxie] Print 'bad' instructions in disassembly instead of aborting

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
Cc: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:50:27 +0200
Subject: Re: [Patch, moxie] Print 'bad' instructions in disassembly instead of aborting
References: <CACxje5_LP_+xoshUXDx-OtD9HDtwbuT+14MaRH6znaiUQUaF5w@mail.gmail.com> <5065C493.2090806@redhat.com>

> If other ports are doing this, it's an accident waiting to happen.

ISTR bfd doing it too, because we tripped over something like that.
BFD noticed a bad RELA entry and thought it was a sign of an internal
error. So it aborted and GDB never had a chance to handle the situation
more gracefully.

-- 
Joel

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