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Re: [patch]: x64 windows about red-zone-area

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
Cc: Kai Tietz <Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:32:27 +0400
Subject: Re: [patch]: x64 windows about red-zone-area
References: <OF8BDB58FC.D3F0F89F-ONC12576B6.003FD2BC-C12576B6.00404C31@onevision.de> <20100201075208.GP26827@adacore.com> <90baa01f1002020758i37185e79j252e81fee15d408e@mail.gmail.com>

> Well, I wasn't sure if it would have negative side-effects. This
> doesn't seem to be, so maybe this patch isn't necessary. But that a
> user tries to debug a function with red-zone, which is actual possible
> if function was marked by sysv_abi, has other issues. AFAICS isn't the
> current implementation (neither for linux, nor for windows) able to
> switch calling convention here.

That's correct.

> This could get possibly sooner or later an issue for the Wine project.

I don't see how, but let's just wait and see if this really becomes
a problem - we'll look at it then.

-- 
Joel

References:
- Re: [patch]: x64 windows about red-zone-area
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [patch]: x64 windows about red-zone-area
  - From: Kai Tietz

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