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Re: problem unwinding past pthread_cond_wait() on x86 RedHat 9.0
> > % objdump --headers /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 | grep frame
> > 15 .eh_frame_hdr 0000002c 00009dc8 00009dc8 00009dc8 2**2
> > 16 .eh_frame 0000010c 00009df4 00009df4 00009df4 2**2
> >
> > No .debug_frame section (not a single dwarf2-related section for
> > that matter).
>
> That is CFI. The .eh_frame section is actually just about the same as
> the .debug_frame section, but encoded a little differently and loaded
> into memory instead of marked as a debugging section.
Ah, OK, thanks. Given the name of the section, I thought it would
contain exception handling _regions_, without necessarily providing
frame information for each and every function. I need to learn a bit
more about them...
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Joel