Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:57:31 -0500
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KGDB 2.0.3 with fixes and development in ethernet interface
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:54:55PM -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
> Daniel has suggested that we could just use the new bin tools where in the 
> gas program will build the call frames.  I am not sure it can handle 
> expressions, however.  And they are needed if you want to tie off the frame 
> if the next step is user land.

Well, we could add a dwarf expression parser to gas quite easily if
desired.

> By the way, I don't try to build a blow by blow of the frame.  Rather I 
> assume it is only of interest at those points where calls are made out of 
> the interrupt /trap code.  (Or, in some cases, jumps are made back into it.)

Only matters if you can be in KGDB at a particular instruction.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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