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authorPeter Schauer <Peter.Schauer@mytum.de>1997-04-26 10:41:14 +0000
committerPeter Schauer <Peter.Schauer@mytum.de>1997-04-26 10:41:14 +0000
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* alpha-tdep.c (heuristic_proc_desc): Increase search limit
for return address register, handle `ret' instruction.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/alpha-tdep.c21
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5a27eed..c6ff4a0 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-Sat Apr 26 02:42:52 1997 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
+Sat Apr 26 03:38:02 1997 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
+
+ * alpha-tdep.c (heuristic_proc_desc): Increase search limit
+ for return address register, handle `ret' instruction.
* corelow.c (get_core_registers): Initialize cf.
diff --git a/gdb/alpha-tdep.c b/gdb/alpha-tdep.c
index b19d85f..69be204 100644
--- a/gdb/alpha-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/alpha-tdep.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Target-dependent code for the ALPHA architecture, for GDB, the GNU Debugger.
- Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
@@ -519,14 +519,18 @@ heuristic_proc_desc(start_pc, limit_pc, next_frame)
rearrange the register saves.
So we recognize only a few registers (t7, t9, ra) within
the procedure prologue as valid return address registers.
+ If we encounter a return instruction, we extract the
+ the return address register from it.
FIXME: Rewriting GDB to access the procedure descriptors,
e.g. via the minimal symbol table, might obviate this hack. */
if (pcreg == -1
- && cur_pc < (start_pc + 20)
+ && cur_pc < (start_pc + 80)
&& (reg == T7_REGNUM || reg == T9_REGNUM || reg == RA_REGNUM))
pcreg = reg;
}
+ else if ((word & 0xffe0ffff) == 0x6be08001) /* ret zero,reg,1 */
+ pcreg = (word >> 16) & 0x1f;
else if (word == 0x47de040f) /* bis sp,sp fp */
has_frame_reg = 1;
}
@@ -534,15 +538,13 @@ heuristic_proc_desc(start_pc, limit_pc, next_frame)
{
/* If we haven't found a valid return address register yet,
keep searching in the procedure prologue. */
- while (cur_pc < (limit_pc + 20) && cur_pc < (start_pc + 20))
+ while (cur_pc < (limit_pc + 80) && cur_pc < (start_pc + 80))
{
char buf[4];
unsigned long word;
- int status;
- status = read_memory_nobpt (cur_pc, buf, 4);
- if (status)
- memory_error (status, cur_pc);
+ if (read_memory_nobpt (cur_pc, buf, 4))
+ break;
cur_pc += 4;
word = extract_unsigned_integer (buf, 4);
@@ -556,6 +558,11 @@ heuristic_proc_desc(start_pc, limit_pc, next_frame)
break;
}
}
+ else if ((word & 0xffe0ffff) == 0x6be08001) /* ret zero,reg,1 */
+ {
+ pcreg = (word >> 16) & 0x1f;
+ break;
+ }
}
}