1 Status: Unsuitable for upstream (at least, without a lot of arguing).
3 GCC does not specify the state of every last register in the CIE. Since
4 GCC's focus is on correctness of runtime unwinding, any registers which
5 have to be unwound will be specified; but unmodified registers will not
6 be explicitly marked. (How about modified, call-clobbered registers?
7 I'm not sure if they are marked as unavailable.)
9 GDB issues a noisy warning about this. The warning is generally not useful,
10 and we can get it extremely frequently (any time we load a new CIE).
12 This patch disables the warning. Alternately we could set the complaints
13 threshold to zero, or implement a default frame init-register method for
14 every architecture. But someday the compiler will support using different
15 calling conventions for internal functions, so that's not much of a stopgap.
16 ARM has a complex algorithm for handling this, involving scanning all CIEs -
17 benefit not completely clear outside of the ARM context of flexible register
20 Index: gdb-6.3/gdb/dwarf2-frame.c
21 ===================================================================
22 --- gdb-6.3.orig/gdb/dwarf2-frame.c 2004-11-15 11:54:57.000000000 -0500
23 +++ gdb-6.3/gdb/dwarf2-frame.c 2004-12-08 18:02:23.896409471 -0500
24 @@ -705,9 +705,12 @@ dwarf2_frame_cache (struct frame_info *n
25 table. We need a way of iterating through all the valid
26 DWARF2 register numbers. */
27 if (fs->regs.reg[column].how == DWARF2_FRAME_REG_UNSPECIFIED)
28 - complaint (&symfile_complaints,
29 - "Incomplete CFI data; unspecified registers at 0x%s",
33 + complaint (&symfile_complaints,
34 + "Incomplete CFI data; unspecified registers at 0x%s",
38 cache->reg[regnum] = fs->regs.reg[column];