[RFC]: .eh_frame section in mingw32 executables

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Tue Jun 23 16:43:00 GMT 2009


Hi,

is there something wrong with the following patch ?  We'd like to have  
an .eh_frame section
in win32/win64 executables so that gdb could print backtraces even for  
files not compiled with -g.

Tristan.

*** ld/scripttempl/pep.sc	18 Apr 2008 09:06:22 -0000	1.5
--- ld/scripttempl/pep.sc	23 Jun 2009 15:52:23 -0000
***************
*** 103,109 ****
     .rdata ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} :
     {
       ${R_RDATA}
-     ${RELOCATING+ *(.eh_frame)}
       ${RELOCATING+___RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ = .;}
       ${RELOCATING+__RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ = .;}
       *(.rdata_runtime_pseudo_reloc)
--- 103,108 ----
***************
*** 111,116 ****
--- 110,120 ----
       ${RELOCATING+__RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END__ = .;}
     }

+   .eh_frame ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} :
+   {
+     *(.eh_frame)
+   }
+
     .pdata ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} :
     {
       *(.pdata)



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