Re: KGDB 2.0.3 with fixes and development in ethernet interface

From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 17:58:43 EST


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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