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Re: libffi unwinder data
Richard Henderson writes:
> 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.
Ah, I knew that there was some useful information there, but I didn't
know it was sufficient for all cases. That's definitely worth looking
at, as the "do it by hand" method is very error prone.
Andew.