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Re: Benefits of latest gas?
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:52:04PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> Yeah, I'd like to understand that more. I already got dwarf2 (mostly)
> working in Apple's tools, and didn't do any assembler hacks, so must
> be missing something. :-)
It's just used to hand-generate CFI - sort of like the way that GCC used
to hand-generate .debug_line, but now uses .loc/.file. I don't know if
GCC will ever use the assembler support to generate CFI, but it
definitely makes life easier for anyone who has to write things by
hand.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer