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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Enable CFI for PowerPC, try 3
References: <20070312161219.GA6778@caradoc.them.org>
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:34:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20070312161219.GA6778@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's 	message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:12:19 -0400")
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Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> The last two times that we (Jim B, and then Andreas) tried to enable
> PowerPC CFI, we ran into problems with GCC.  It used to emit bogus
> unwind tables.  This has since been fixed - see the comment in the
> patch below for the gory details - but if you get it wrong it's such a
> messy and terrible outcome.  So here's some workarounds.

While we are at it, there is a loosely related patch in
<http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-06/msg00011.html> that never
got checked in.

Andreas.

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