Re: [PATCH] i386 CFI annotations

From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 08:10:18 EST


On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:49:14AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > But truly I think the processor-specific pieces of Dwarf's
> > frame unwind spec should provide numbering for the complete set of
> > registers.
>
> Except there is no standards body for this. So *someone* will
> have to make it up.
>
> Make it up and put it in gas and gdb: that will make it a defacto standard.

Agreed. If it makes you feel better, we could ask the DWARF committee to
maintain a repository of processor-specific documents.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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