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Re: HP-PA ABI issues - framepointer handling
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: HP-PA ABI issues - framepointer handling
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:11:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: alex at anvil dot co dot uk, bosch at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mklein at dis dot com
<<Go with dwarf2 unwinders. That's a much more efficient implementation and
it doesn't unduly restrict code generation. That's the long term plan for
most platforms. It just needs someone to spend the time to make it work
for the PA.
>>
I don't see how this will handle third party code, which at least for us
is a requirement. But in any case, since when did gcc make a point of NOT
following ABI's. I have always found it an advantage to stress that gcc
made a point of FOLLOWING ABI's and we have found this to be extremely
useful.