From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4411 invoked by alias); 29 May 2002 12:41:30 -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 4374 invoked from network); 29 May 2002 12:41:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kerberos.suse.cz) (195.47.106.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 May 2002 12:41:26 -0000 Received: from chimera.suse.cz (chimera.suse.cz [10.20.0.2]) by kerberos.suse.cz (SuSE SMTP server) with ESMTP id 5CB9659D373; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from suse.cz (naga.suse.cz [10.20.1.16]) by chimera.suse.cz (8.11.0/8.11.0/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with ESMTP id g4TCfOl01620; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:41:24 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: chimera.suse.cz: Host naga.suse.cz [10.20.1.16] claimed to be suse.cz Message-ID: <3CF4CC74.9050307@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 05:41:00 -0000 From: Michal Ludvig Organization: SuSE CR User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: cs, cz, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb , rth@redhat.com Subject: What is LSDA? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 Hi all, In dwarf-2 debug_frame generated by GCC 3.1 I can sometimes see an augmentation "L", that indicates a presence of pointer to something called "LSDA (Language Specific Data Area)" in appropriate CIE/FDEs. My questions are: - What is LSDA for? - When does GCC generate it? - Should I support it in GDB? Do I need it for something? Thanks, Michal Ludvig -- * SuSE CR, s.r.o * mludvig@suse.cz * +420 2 9654 5373 * http://www.suse.cz