HP-PA ABI issues - framepointer handling

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Thu Oct 19 08:59:00 GMT 2000


  In message < 14830.48074.84409.376797@prodigy.anvil.co.uk >you write:
  > For what its worth as someone occasionally using GCC on HP-UX, I'd
  > rather have ABI compliance by default, with options to get better
  > performance if necessary.
You're misunderstanding the implications of the areas were we don't comply
to the unwinding conventions -- it means that the __U_STACK_TRACE function
provided by HP doesn't work.  No more, no less.


  > Is this the cause of the g++ problems with exceptions thrown from
  > shared libraries on HP-UX?
No.  That's simply a bug and it has been fixed.
jeff



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