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-rw-r--r--gdb/frame.c11
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 248197e..d422af4 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2004-12-07 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
+ * frame.c (get_prev_frame): Don't terminate unwinding at main if we
+ are unwinding through a dummy frame.
+
+2004-12-07 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
+
* hppa-tdep.h (gdbarch_tdep): Add unwind_adjust_stub method.
* hppa-hpux-tdep.c (hppa_hpux_unwind_adjust_stub): New function.
(hppa_hpux_init_abi) Set unwind_adjust_stub method.
diff --git a/gdb/frame.c b/gdb/frame.c
index 25b32f4..b229730 100644
--- a/gdb/frame.c
+++ b/gdb/frame.c
@@ -1199,7 +1199,18 @@ get_prev_frame (struct frame_info *this_frame)
get_current_frame(). */
gdb_assert (this_frame != NULL);
+ /* tausq/2004-12-07: Dummy frames are skipped because it doesn't make much
+ sense to stop unwinding at a dummy frame. One place where a dummy
+ frame may have an address "inside_main_func" is on HPUX. On HPUX, the
+ pcsqh register (space register for the instruction at the head of the
+ instruction queue) cannot be written directly; the only way to set it
+ is to branch to code that is in the target space. In order to implement
+ frame dummies on HPUX, the called function is made to jump back to where
+ the inferior was when the user function was called. If gdb was inside
+ the main function when we created the dummy frame, the dummy frame will
+ point inside the main function. */
if (this_frame->level >= 0
+ && get_frame_type (this_frame) != DUMMY_FRAME
&& !backtrace_past_main
&& inside_main_func (this_frame))
/* Don't unwind past main(). Note, this is done _before_ the