Re: [RFC] Improve amd64 prologue analysis

Joel Brobecker
2010-12-16T04:15:56Z

> I hope you'll understand my reluctance to add one after managing 7
> years or so without.

OK - that's very reasonable. Prologue analyzers are very ugly, and
the amd64 one is worse, because the insns are harder to parse
(at least to me). That's why, until Pierre started sending patches,
I never really considered submitting the changes we made, thinking
that we were the only one for whom it actually made a difference.

> So if support for pdata/xdata gets added I would expect that
> the prologue analyzer won't be needed on 64-bit Windows either.

That's correct.

> If you stick it somewhere where I don't need to look at it, I won't
> care as much.

Sounds like an acceptable compromise.

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Joel