Re: [Libunwind-devel] Libunwind support for CFI from .debug_frame in DWARF

[Corey Ashford]

Andreas Schwab writes:
> Corey Ashford <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Are there any plans to add support to libunwind for the case when only
> > .debug_frame sections are present?
>
> Debug sections are not loaded, so they are not available at runtime.
>
> Andreas.

That's an excellent point that I hadn't considered.  It could slow down 
unwinding significantly, and the user would be puzzled as to why after 
he [accidentally] removed the -funwind-tables (etc.) option that his 
application just became much slower.

Thanks

- Corey

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