.eh_frame section on alpha

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jan 4 09:36:00 GMT 2005


Hi Simon,

>>However, I also think it would be a good idea to have an assembler
>>option to not create the unwind information.

> Strongly agreed :-)  I can come up with a patch, but I'm not sure what a
> good option name would be.  --no-auto-eh-frame seems a little unwieldy.

How about: --no-create-eh-frame ?

I see no problem with long switch names.  It is better that they are 
expressive and tell the user what they are doing.  Shorter, more compact 
switch names are often confusing and can lead to user misunderstanding.

Cheers
   Nick




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