Re: [Libunwind-devel] [PATCH 7/7] Implement _UPTi_find_unwind_table() for ARM

[ext ext Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:10:27AM -0400, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> But what about those architectures that can find the unwind tables by other
> ways (such as x86, which currently uses eh_frame)? Should we do something
> like looking for eh_frame first then, if not found, try debug_frame? Sounds
> the best solution IMHO.

I believe that's what we do for local debugging on MIPS - try
.eh_frame then .debug_info.  We probably do it on ARM too, it's just
that there never is .eh_frame.

> What about IA64? sounds like it is handled differently in a lot of places,
> so I'd keep it's separate implementation for now, and use the new "unified"
> _UPTi_find_unwind_table() version for the other architectures.

Yes, IA-64 is special...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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