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Re: PATCH for EH on MIPS


>>>>> Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> writes:

 > Curiously, I see that this is not true for SGI targets, they call
 > output_call_frame_info twice.  Once to generate debug info, and once to
 > generate EH info.  All other targets only call output_call_frame_info
 > once, and the same info is used for both debugging and exception
 > handling.

That's because the SGI debugger doesn't know about .eh_frame.

 > So it looks like the concern I raise isn't a problem.  We instead have a
 > different problem where irix6 executables are larger than necessary,
 > because debug info and exception handling info isn't shared like it is
 > for all other dwarf2 targets.

I suppose we could omit .debug_frame on SGI, too, depending on the flags
used.

Jason


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