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Re: [RFA] bfd/elf-eh-frame.c: return address column of CIE


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:18:33AM +0900, kaz Kojima wrote:
>> I'm just a little confused. It seems that GCC uses DWARF v2 not v3
>> format about this. gcc/dwarf2out.c (output_call_frame) outputs this
>> entry like as:
>> 
>>   ...
>>   dw2_asm_output_data_sleb128 (DWARF_CIE_DATA_ALIGNMENT,
>> 			       "CIE Data Alignment Factor");
>>   dw2_asm_output_data (1, DWARF_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN, "CIE RA Column");
>>   ...
>> 
>> but binutils uses DWARF v3. Does it mean that we should fix gcc?
> 
> Well, gcc is slowly moving towards DWARF v3.
> Unless some architecture defines DWARF_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN to 128 or bigger,
> this actually makes zero difference for gcc, but yes, gcc should be changed.

I understand. Nick, I'd like to withdraw my patch. Sorry about
my confusion.

Thanks,
	kaz


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