Re: [Sbcl-devel] [PATCH] Extend address spaces on mips

[Thiemo S. <th...@ne...>]

Christophe Rhodes wrote:
[snip]
> >> Register $28 aka $gp was unused on the lisp side before, and is now
> >> a temporary specifically for jump/branch relaxation.
> 
> Even if we are careful about restoring $gp before calling into C, is
> this not a little dangerous?  (I'm thinking about debugging with gdb,
> for instance, which might get even more confused than usual)

Gdb assumes to find C ABI conforming function frames, for lisp code
it can't traceback anyway. So far, I never had a need to debug C code
while staying on the lisp side, a breakpoint on call_into{c,lisp} was
always sufficient.

[snip]
> (PS: are we close to the position yet that this can be let loose on
> the Debian autobuilders?)

Once the other four testsuite failures are either fixed or disabled,
I think.


Thiemo