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Re: [PATCH] Add support for .cfi_sections - way to emit also .debug_frame from .cfi_* directives

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 05:27:13PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Is it going to be a problem that DWARF2_FORMAT is defined to 32bit by
> default on everything but MIPS?  In general, I've noticed that GCC has

I believe it matches exactly what gcc does with .eh_frame.  Even there
GCC emits some kind of 64-bit .debug_frame only on MIPS (see gcc
DWARF_OFFSET_SIZE and DWARF_INITIAL_LENGTH_SIZE macros).

The encodings are required by the DWARF standard - .debug_frame doesn't use any
special encodings.

	Jakub
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