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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com>
Cc: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	KGDB bugreports <kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: KGDB 2.0.3 with fixes and development in ethernet interface
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:39:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040121183940.GA23200@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401211916.49520.amitkale@emsyssoft.com>

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:16:48PM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote:
> Now back to gdb problem of not being able to locate registers.
> schedule results in code of this form:
> 
> schedule:
> framesetup
> registers save
> ...
> ...
> save registers
> change esp
> call switchto
> restore registers
> ...
> ...
> 
> GDB can't analyze code other than frame setup and registers save. It may not 
> show values of variables that are present in registers correctly. This used 
> to be a problem some time ago (gdb 5.X). Perhaps gdb 6.x does a better job.
> hmm...
> May be its time I should look at gdb's x86 register info code again.

You should try GDB 6.0, which will use the dwarf2 unwind information to
accurately locate registers in any GCC-compiled code with -gdwarf-2 (-g
on Linux targets).

As George is now painfully familiar with :)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-16 12:29 KGDB 2.0.3 with fixes and development in ethernet interface Amit S. Kale
2004-01-16 12:58 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-16 14:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-16 14:24     ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-16 14:17   ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-16 14:45     ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-16 13:05 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2004-01-16 14:21   ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-16 14:45     ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-16 15:12       ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-16 14:47     ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-16 15:15       ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-16 15:52         ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-17  6:27           ` KGDB documentation [Re: [discuss] KGDB 2.0.3 with fixes and development in ethernet interface] Amit S. Kale
2004-01-17  9:00             ` George Anzinger
2004-01-16 18:39     ` [discuss] KGDB 2.0.3 with fixes and development in ethernet interface Matt Mackall
2004-01-16 16:13 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-16 20:48 ` George Anzinger
2004-01-16 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-17  1:23   ` George Anzinger
2004-01-17  9:29     ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-17 19:54       ` George Anzinger
2004-01-21 13:46         ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-21 18:39           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-01-21 23:14             ` George Anzinger
2004-01-22  5:49             ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-22 20:33               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-21 23:00           ` George Anzinger
2004-01-22  5:09             ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-22 17:20               ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 22:54                 ` George Anzinger
2004-01-22 22:57                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-23 19:10               ` Tom Rini

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