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Re: PowerPC binary tagging
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:19:58PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:45:44AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Has anyone thought about implementing this for PowerPC? Do we have
> > spare ELF header bits, or should we use a separate section? The
> > closest think I know if is the .PPC.EMB.apuinfo section, used to tag
> > SPE binaries, but that's coprocessor usage rather than ABI.
>
> DW_AT_calling_convention? Is there any particular need to
> mark the binary itself?
If we're going to go to the trouble of marking them at all, I figured
we ought to do it in such a way that we could get linker warnings too.
If no one else thinks it's important, though, DW_AT_calling_convention
would fix the GDB problem 99% of the time - and it's dead easy...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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