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Re: [patch x64 SEH]: Sort pdata section ascending
On 09/14/2010 11:34 AM, Kai Tietz wrote:
> Well, I just did the complete comparison here. Other possible thing
> here would be an abort, if we see to entries with same begin_address,
> I would assume it could be unnecessary (and maybe we should even abort
> if end-address/handler-data aren't equal, but start address is equal),
> but I am not sure if SEH would allow here different handler-types for
> same region, and so sorting could be still required.
Well, aborting in the linker due to user input is discouraged.
But if you recall, I did suggest that we diagnose bad pdata
sections in objdump.
That said, I think the only thing we need to sort on is the
start address.
r~