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Re: Add unwind information to i386 LinuxThreads syscalls
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:40:55PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:36:55PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > LinuxThreads doesn't need unwind information for cancellation, but other
> > things need to unwind out of cancellable syscalls from time to time - for
> > instance, GDB. I don't know if gcj needs this too but I suspect it does.
> > This patch adapts the .eh_frame information from the NPTL version of
> > sysdep-cancel.h.
> >
> > Tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu. Is this OK?
>
> Can't you use .cfi_* directives instead?
Sure, but I didn't write this from scratch - as I said, I took it from
the NPTL implementation. Might as well keep them in sync.
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