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Re: [PATCH] gas: fix a few omissions in .cfi_label handling
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 07:50:16 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] gas: fix a few omissions in .cfi_label handling
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> On 05.02.15 at 16:38, <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>> While actually starting to use that new directive, I noticed a few
>>> oversights of the original commit.
>>>
>>> gas/
>>> 2015-02-05 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>>>
>>> * dw2gencfi.c (select_cie_for_fde): Also bail on CFI_label.
>>> (cfi_change_reg_numbers): Also do nothing for CFI_label.
>>> (cfi_pseudo_table): Also handle .cfi_label when not supporting
>>> CFI directives.
>>>
>>
>> Please add some testcases.
>
> For what? The original patch added some already, and I really don't
> see the point of me wasting time on trying to figure out how I could
> demonstrate that things could go wrong without these (minor and
> obvious) adjustments.
How does one know what the new directive should
behave? Without the testcase, it may be broken and
we won't even know it.
--
H.J.