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Re: HP-PA ABI issues - framepointer handling
- To: Alex Hornby <alex at anvil dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: HP-PA ABI issues - framepointer handling
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:59:20 -0600
- cc: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar), bosch at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <14830.48074.84409.376797@prodigy.anvil.co.uk>you write:
> For what its worth as someone occasionally using GCC on HP-UX, I'd
> rather have ABI compliance by default, with options to get better
> performance if necessary.
You're misunderstanding the implications of the areas were we don't comply
to the unwinding conventions -- it means that the __U_STACK_TRACE function
provided by HP doesn't work. No more, no less.
> Is this the cause of the g++ problems with exceptions thrown from
> shared libraries on HP-UX?
No. That's simply a bug and it has been fixed.
jeff