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Xtensa port
- From: Maxim Grigoriev <maxim at tensilica dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:15:40 -0700
- Subject: Xtensa port
I just sent an updated patch with the following comments:
After some investigation, it turns out that the get_fp_num() function,
which was "grubbing around in the private data structures of the symbol
reader", is not needed at all. Perhaps that code was left over from an
earlier version of GDB. Stack unwinding on Xtensa can be done using the
register windows -- it requires neither prologue analysis to find the
frame pointer nor DWARF unwind info. The only thing the get_fp_num()
function was used for was identifying frames, but it seems like we can
just use the stack pointer for the frame ID. (Is that right?) I've
changed the code to do this and it appears to work fine: no DejaGnu
regression has been detected, and manual testing on alloca-tests hasn't
exposed anything.
The other suggestions that I've received so far were easy to use and
I've done that. By the way, I also removed the line to use the
dwarf2_frame_sniffer, because DWARF unwind info is not currently used
for Xtensa.
Maxim Grigoriev
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