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Re: [RFC] DWARF CFI: what to do with .eh_frame sections?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 16:20:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] DWARF CFI: what to do with .eh_frame sections?
- References: <200305092014.h49KEYPd020771@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:14:34PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> It's clear that we want to support unwinding using info in .eh_frame
> sections in addition to .debug_frame sections. I'm inclined to make
> to make dwarf-frame.c provide two frame unwinders: one that uses
> .debug_frame info, and one that uses .eh_frame info. That way it will
> be possible to let the target determine if .dwarf_frame will be
> preferred over .eh_frame or not.
>
> Thoughts?
That seems reasonable. I'd probably create a single function to
register both unwinders, and call it from each target, though;
since there's no reason I can think of to prefer one over the other
modula unknown GDB bugs.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer