[David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>] problem with unwind info for .init/.fini sections

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sat Mar 2 19:59:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:36:43PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:25:58 -0800, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> said:
> 
>   Rich> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:16:12PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
>   >> OK, that's what I did.  Could this be applied to the relevant branches?
> 
>   Rich> Applied to mainline.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
>   Rich> IIRC, the 2.12 branch is closed.
> 
> Daniel, are you overseeing the 2.12 branch?  If so, any chance to make
> an exception for this change?  My hope is the patch is trivial enough
> to be considered safe and it would certainly help getting the
> remaining unwind-related bugs ironed out of ia64 linux.  It should
> also help freebsd/ia64 to get this right from the start.

Distributions can apply the patch, and we can try to put it in 2.12.1. 
As evidenced by the discussions of the past few days, and Christian's
comment on build failures, I think it's not quite ready.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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