From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12934 invoked by alias); 29 May 2002 18:02:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12823 invoked from network); 29 May 2002 18:02:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO potter.sfbay.redhat.com) (205.180.83.107) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 May 2002 18:02:21 -0000 Received: from dot.sfbay.redhat.com (dot.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.7]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4TI0Nv22083; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:00:23 -0700 Received: (from rth@localhost) by dot.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4TI2LT04233; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:02:21 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: dot.sfbay.redhat.com: rth set sender to rth@redhat.com using -f Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:02:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson To: Michal Ludvig Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb Subject: Re: What is LSDA? Message-ID: <20020529110221.H4168@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Henderson , Michal Ludvig , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb References: <3CF4CC74.9050307@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CF4CC74.9050307@suse.cz>; from mludvig@suse.cz on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:41:24PM +0200 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00320.txt.bz2 On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:41:24PM +0200, Michal Ludvig wrote: > My questions are: > - What is LSDA for? > - When does GCC generate it? It's data in some opaque format to be consumed by the language's exception personality routine to decide whether and where an exception should be handled. > - Should I support it in GDB? Do I need it for something? No. r~