2005-10-03 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / ia64-tdep.c

diff --git a/gdb/ia64-tdep.c b/gdb/ia64-tdep.c
index 0e1968382eb30f7684128846c3371cc1245a8389..ac43d26ad5632ccb89c3fb6a35fa46e7b32a115f 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ia64-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/ia64-tdep.c
@@ -2460,17 +2460,19 @@ getunwind_table (void *buf, size_t len)
 {
   LONGEST x;
 
-  /* FIXME: This is a temporary solution to backtracing syscalls in corefiles.
-            To do this properly, the AUXV section should be used.  This
-           fix will work as long as the kernel used to generate the corefile
-           is equivalent to the kernel used to debug the corefile.  */
-  x = ia64_linux_xfer_unwind_table (&current_target, 
-                                   TARGET_OBJECT_UNWIND_TABLE, NULL,
-                                   buf, NULL, 0, len);
+  /* FIXME drow/2005-09-10: This code used to call
+     ia64_linux_xfer_unwind_table directly to fetch the unwind table
+     for the currently running ia64-linux kernel.  That data should
+     come from the core file and be accessed via the auxv vector; if
+     we want to preserve fall back to the running kernel's table, then
+     we should find a way to override the corefile layer's
+     xfer_partial method.  */
+  x = target_read_partial (&current_target, TARGET_OBJECT_UNWIND_TABLE, NULL,
+                          buf, 0, len);
 
   return (int)x;
 }
-       
+
 /* Get the kernel unwind table.  */                             
 static int
 get_kernel_table (unw_word_t ip, unw_dyn_info_t *di)