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Re: dwarf2 EH address size

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: iant at google dot com
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:35:12 -0500
Subject: Re: dwarf2 EH address size
References: <200801242326.m0ONQVFC024929@greed.delorie.com> <m3hch27770.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

> The EH code does seem to use POINTER_SIZE pretty consistently.
> DWARF2_ADDR_SIZE is for the debug info, not the exception frame
> info.  I haven't looked into the history of why this is so.

Hmmm... I suppose the EH info is used by the runtime as well, right?
So changing to a non-standard addr size complicates the unwinder.

I think I'll change binutils then ;-)

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