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Re: dwarf2 unwinding for i386
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Michal Ludvig <mludvig at suse dot cz>
- Cc: gdb <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>, Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:53:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: dwarf2 unwinding for i386
- References: <3D172112.1050108@suse.cz>
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:39:30PM +0200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Hi all,
> what do you think about adding dwarf2 unwinding (dwarf2cfi.c) to i386
> target? On x86-64 we are already using it for some time now and it seems
> to be quite stable. GCC folks are about to switch omit-frame-pointer on
> by default for i386 in a near future, but are waiting (as I understand
> it) for GDB to implement dwarf2 unwinding, so that the resulting code
> could be debugged. Can we make at least a testing branch with this
> support? Opinions? MarkK?
If we do this, IMHO, we should support it for all architectures and not
for just x86-64 and i386. Everyone wins.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer