binutils 2.20 regressions (20091002)

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 15:23:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Dave Korn
<dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Tristan Gingold wrote:
>
>> Should we include Jakub's patch on .cfi_* directives ?
>
>  That's obviously highly desirable, since there won't be another official
> binutils release before gcc-4.5.0 comes out, but of course it's risky.  It
> looks safe-ish because a lot of it is semi-mechanically wrapping conditionals
> around the existing code, but of course just one typo'd/wrong/missing
> condition amongst them could end up generating bad debug info.
>

I'd like to see testcases for those new .cfi_* directives first. We
have no ideas how they should work without testcases.


-- 
H.J.



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