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Re: darwin fix-and-continue support

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:30:22 -0700
Subject: Re: darwin fix-and-continue support

On Saturday, August 21, 2004, at 09:43 AM, Roger Sayle wrote:

Is there any reason why you don't just guarantee that a function is
always at least 16 bytes long, rather than add these four NOPs into
every prologue?

I suspect ease of implementation for the gdb people, as they can easily change the PC of any thread that is in the nop by advancing it, without worrying what it does, and then they can just overwrite the nops as they see fit.

References:
- Re: darwin fix-and-continue support
  - From: Roger Sayle

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