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Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.base/callfuncs.exp
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:49:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.base/callfuncs.exp
- References: <jebqkf9y09.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> This fixes these testsuite failures on ia64:
>
> FAIL: gdb.base/callfuncs.exp: gdb function calls preserve register contents
> FAIL: gdb.base/callfuncs.exp: continue after stop in call dummy preserves register contents
> FAIL: gdb.base/callfuncs.exp: return after stop in call dummy preserves register contents
>
> The problem is that the bspstore register is specially tied with the bsp
> register, and this can't be controlled by gdb.
How does this work - i.e. how do we guarantee that the restored state
is equivalent? Does it indicate extra registers written to the
register stack?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery