[PATCH] Indicate dependency on personality routines for ARM EHABI - take 2

[Richard Earnshaw]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:09, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> > This version fixes that example, and my previous tests - it now tests 
> > for the section being changed to one of type SHT_PROGBITS, rather than 
> > SHT_ARM_EXIDX.
> > 
> > Tests have been re-run.
> 
> I have only be vaguely following this thread but one thing does occur to 
> me.  Will your patch work if the programmer uses sub-segments and/or the 
> .pushsection/.popsection pseudo ops ?  If so, then please consider this 
> patch approved for the mainline only, not the 2.16 branch.

A quick look at the code suggests that most of the unwinding code in the
assembler will probably break horribly if we try to nest building
partial unwind descriptions in multiple sections.  So I don't think it
would be reasonable to expect that to be fixed here first.

R.