This is the mail archive of the
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: PATCH for EH on MIPS
- To: Jim Wilson <wilson at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: PATCH for EH on MIPS
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 03 Nov 1998 18:47:57 -0800
- Cc: mark at markmitchell dot com, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- References: <199811040200.SAA15177@rtl.cygnus.com>
>>>>> 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