> With kdb, you get what you asked for.  If you ask for a break point at
> offset 0 of a function, that is what kdb does.  Think assembler
> functions, which gdb cannot handle.

gdb can handle assembler functions.....  on some architectures even
assembler functions would need to follow ABI requirements for
prologue/epilogue, and have unwinding info. gdb also uses code reading
to do unwinding, so assembler functions can be unwound usually...

> The i386 kdb patch has its own heuristics for working out how far into
> the function the breakpoint is and for working out what state the stack
> is at that point.

ok, i will try to make kdb on parisc work under these conditions.

thanks for the clarification.

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/
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