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Re: libffi unwinder data

To: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: libffi unwinder data
From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:34:32 -0700
Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> This reminds me of something.  I've been wondering if it is worth
> adding unwinder directives to gas rather than doing it all as .byte
> commands in gcc...

Well, for plain assembler, Alpha actually has enough information with
the .frame, .mask, .fmask, and .prologue directives to construct the
entire .eh_frame (or .debug_frame) section itself.

Which is probably the best way to go, really.  No one wants to fiddle
with the details of skipping etc at all.

r~

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