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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:53:27 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, obrien@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: EGCS and Alpha builds
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904152052280.51054-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <14102.2621.961081.71582J@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:

> At Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:18:09 +0100 (BST),
> Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote:
> > The backtrace code in DDB is somewhat fragile. It has to parse the
> > function prologue to figure out where the return address is. I expect egcs
> > has changed the prologue.  GDB does something similar; hopefully it will
> > be fixed in gdb-4.18.
> 
> Thanks for the hint. The prologue has changed. Egcs uses 'subq/addq' to
> manipulate stack pointer instead of 'lda'. I made an adhoc fix for
> DDB/GDB. Don't you mind my commiting this DDB fix to the tree?
> (warning supression included)

The patch looks correct, please go ahead and commit it. Thanks for
spending the time - most of my time is being used up by the new-bus
project right now.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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