Interpreter/libffi ARM Porting

[Ranjit Mathew]

Andreas Tobler wrote:
> Craig A. Vanderborgh wrote:
> 
> 
>>What does this do?  Is it related to exception handling in some way?  Do
>>we need to have the equivalent thing in our ARM implementation?
> 
> 
> Yes, it is used for the dwarf unwinder. I do not know if arm supports 
> dwarf, but you can easily find out.

GCC uses DWARF-2 for exception handling (unless you configure with
"--enable-sjlj-exceptions") irrespective of whether the target
supports DWARF-2 as a debugging format or not.

Ranjit.

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