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Re: PATCH: Fix the MIPS ISA ELF setting (Re: RedHat 7.1/mips update)
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:47:54AM -0800, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> > What you really "want" is some method of marking PC ranges in object
> > files as being asm for a particular ISA or CPU (then a method of
> > merging them on link, etc.). I don't suspect that that would be
> > horribly difficult, but I wouldn't even know where to begin
> > implementing it...
>
> At the risk of opening a nasty can of worms... this sounds like it
> should be a job for DWARF2. Speaking it in the assembler to this
> degree may be more trouble than it's worth. We already have some
> address range information; I don't know if it's possible to tag that.
Actually, this is a job for DWARF3.
You can specify that an address range contains a particular isa.
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