Re: [RFC] Improve amd64 prologue analysis

Joel Brobecker
2010-11-25T16:30:49Z

> > One last bit of information - which I got second hand, but hopefully
> > accurate. I think that the GCC team is on its way to generating the
> > unwinding info in that format, rather than the usual DWARF-based
> > eh_frame/debug_frame. So the Microsoft format should become the default
> > even for code generated by GCC... So eventually, I think we are going
> > to need to add an unwinder for that, even for GCC code.
>
> I certainly hope you're wrong here, since it would mean a massive ABI
> break on platforms currently using .eh_frame, and presumably would be
> x86-specific.

I should have said that this is only relevant to x86_64-windows.
All other platforms will continue to use the usual eh_frame, of
course.

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Joel