Re: [arm] Use EABI unwind library

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> > I'm pretty uncomfortable with putting this on the mainline.  I know that 
> > we need this for full EABI compatibility in 4.0 -- but I think this is 
> > not Stage 3 material, due to the changes to gcc/except.c and the V3 
> > bits, even though I see that those are pretty minimal.  Let's queue this 
> > for 4.1.  (Our internal Wiki has a list of ARM patches queued for 4.1 -- 
> > presently empty.)  If Richard E. wants to lobby for this in 4.0 after he 
> > comes back from vacation, he can try to convince Richard Henderson (EH) 
> > and Benjamin Koznik (V3); I'd feel differently if those folks wanted to 
> > go ahead with this patch as well, but I feel tremendously uncomfortable 
> > approving this directly.
> >    
>
> The problem with this is that without this code the C++ compiler is so
> fundamentally non-compliant that we might as well disable building of
> G++ entirely.  And that means we'd have to wait nearly another year[1]
> before we had an FSF release that was compliant.
>  
I think that, then, you should try to convince Richard Henderson and 
Benjamin Koznik that these changes are valuable.  If it is OK with them, 
I would be OK with it, but I do not want to push changes into subsytems 
that I do not maintain in a way that could be perceived as a favor for a 
CodeSourcery customer.  I'd also be open to a conditional compilation 
solution; if Richard H. feels uncomfortable with the EH changes, maybe 
he'd be happier with them #ifdef'd.

I think the worst case is that we create csl-arm-4_0-branch, which 
differs from the 4_0-branch only by this patch.

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