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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Improve amd64 prologue analysis
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101125163022.GI2634@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201011251338.oAPDck2Y013525@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

> > 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.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-25 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15 17:28 Pierre Muller
2010-11-18 17:22 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-19  8:15   ` Pierre Muller
2010-11-19 17:20     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-19 22:50       ` Pierre Muller
2010-12-14  7:05         ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-14  9:58           ` Pedro Alves
2010-12-15 23:07           ` Mark Kettenis
2010-12-16  4:15             ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-24 21:19     ` Mark Kettenis
2010-11-24 22:15       ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-24 22:26         ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-25 13:39           ` Mark Kettenis
2010-11-25 16:30             ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-11-25 19:19               ` Kai Tietz
2010-11-24 22:17       ` Joel Brobecker

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