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Re: [RFA] OSF/1 - "next" over prologueless function call
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: brobecker at gnat dot com, ezannoni at redhat dot com, rth at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:53:27 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [RFA] OSF/1 - "next" over prologueless function call
Hi Joel,
> ... I see some target-specific code uses a grab-bag field of the
> minimal_symbol structure to store some target-specific information
> (field "info"). I don't particularly fancy typeless fields like this,
> but, just thinking aloud, we could add a new fields holding some flags
> which would be defined in gdb in an manor independent of the target.
I would like to clean up the "info" field.
The only thing it's used for is these target-specific bit flags.
It's really stupid that it's a "void *"!
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-11/msg00094.html
When I get some more cycles, and Elena gets some more cycles,
I'll bring it up for discussion again.
Michael C
too tired to work, not too tired to blabber