.eh_frame section

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 05:42:37PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > Fine. So we can replace absolute labels by label differences. I propose
> > the following: When the compiler output contains either a .gcc_except or
> > a .eh_table section, the beginning of the text section for this module
> > is marked as __TEXT_BEGIN__ and subtracted from all labels in the tables.
> > A new section .text_begin is created which only contains the absolute
> > __TEXT_BEGIN__.
> 
> This doesn't sound like it'll work with linker relaxation, unless you
> want to add a lot of extra code to the linker to decode this information,
> translate it into proper relocations, and re-encode it after its
> processing is done.

Actually, it's not going to work at all except on Irix6 and OSF/1.  No 
one else has the relocations to subtract symbols at link time vs asm time.


r~