From 4ec56c1fec7ba696ba78aef44fdb646bcf8488c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Kingdon Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 06:41:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * TODO: Add item regarding large frames. --- gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog | 2 ++ gdb/testsuite/TODO | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog index 5dc9a7aebab..c852c3686c3 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ Sat Dec 17 14:20:03 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) + * TODO: Add item regarding large frames. + * gdb.base/{funcargs.exp, funcargs.c} (call_after_alloca): New test. * TODO: Remove item about enabling return.exp; it diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/TODO b/gdb/testsuite/TODO index 8d07bdbaf35..abb0f32c97e 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/TODO +++ b/gdb/testsuite/TODO @@ -186,6 +186,14 @@ watchpoint.exp, signals.exp, etc. Test that the copyright year in the startup message matches the current year (would produce a single spurious FAIL on old GDB's, but probably still a good idea). + +Test that prologue recognition, backtrace, printing locals, etc., +still work in the presence of large frames (the point being that at +some point immediate fields in RISC instructions will overflow and +prologues will need to look different. For sparc, the immediate field +is 13 bits (signed), so I believe the threshold would be 4K bytes in a +frame). + (this is for editing this file with GNU emacs) Local Variables: -- 2.30.2