[RFC]: .eh_frame section in mingw32 executables

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Tue Jun 23 16:54:00 GMT 2009


Tristan Gingold wrote:
> 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.

  Can you explain what it does, how it does it and why in a bit more detail
please?  You're changing the behaviour of relocatable links to keep the
.eh_data in its own section instead of merging it into .rdata, yes?

    cheers,
      DaveK



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