Comments on: GCC Exception Frames http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/166 Ian Lance Taylor Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:54:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/166/comment-page-1#comment-11766 Ian Lance Taylor Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:28:41 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/166#comment-11766 dl_iterate_phdr is provided by the dynamic linker. It is declared in . I guess you are suggesting: why not put the unwind code in the dynamic linker? In principle we could do that someday. In practice that would fix the ABI and API not merely the ABI of the unwind information, which is already fixed, but also the ABI and API of the unwinder. That might be desirable at some point, but for now I think it would be better to let the compiler continue own it. dl_iterate_phdr is provided by the dynamic linker. It is declared in .

I guess you are suggesting: why not put the unwind code in the dynamic linker? In principle we could do that someday. In practice that would fix the ABI and API not merely the ABI of the unwind information, which is already fixed, but also the ABI and API of the unwinder. That might be desirable at some point, but for now I think it would be better to let the compiler continue own it.

]]> By: ncm http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/166/comment-page-1#comment-11758 ncm Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:04:55 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/166#comment-11758 Sorry, where is dl_iterate_phdr defined, and why couldn't the present contents of libgcc_s.so be there, too, similarly obviating libgcc_s.so without need to build with --eh-frame-hdr? I think I'm still missing some context. Sorry, where is dl_iterate_phdr defined, and why couldn’t the present contents of libgcc_s.so be there, too, similarly obviating libgcc_s.so without need to build with –eh-frame-hdr? I think I’m still missing some context.

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