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Re: Some elfutils/libdw/cfi comments
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:00:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: Some elfutils/libdw/cfi comments
> If you feel the current dwarf_cfi_validate_fde () addition is too hacky,
> please don't support it. I do think it is useful though, even if it
> might be a bit restricted/inefficient going over all FDEs with it. It
> would help me clean up a bit of the systemtap translator code, even if
> it won't allow me to do full fancy rewrites.
I think it's OK as it is. If you are happy using it without more features,
then let's just go with that for the foreseeable future.
> Having a full cfi compression and transcoding framework would be cool,
> but might indeed be much more work. Maybe one day we will have the time.
> It does sound fun.
Agreed!
Thanks,
Roland