dwarf2 EH address size

DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 14:56:00 GMT 2008


> The EH code does seem to use POINTER_SIZE pretty consistently.
> DWARF2_ADDR_SIZE is for the debug info, not the exception frame
> info.  I haven't looked into the history of why this is so.

Hmmm... I suppose the EH info is used by the runtime as well, right?
So changing to a non-standard addr size complicates the unwinder.

I think I'll change binutils then ;-)



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