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

[ext Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:58:30AM -0400, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> We have no way to do tests on other architectures other than x86 and ARM
> I'm afraid, and some other architectures already seem to have their own
> _UPTi_find_unwind_table() implementation, notably:
> 
> x86
> x86_64
> HPPA
> ppc64
> ia64
> 
> So we added this new _UPTi_find_unwind_table() as an ARM only function
> for now, but it can be easily used by other architectures if anyone
> implement the other necessary bits for them (I think at least the
> register offsets are necessary).
> 
> Sounds reasonable?

IIUC, what you have is a routine to find unwind tables by looking in
.debug_frame while remote debugging.  If that was a function not
conditioned on ARM, other platforms would be free to share it.  That
may be better.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery