[Dwarf-Discuss] doubt parsing CIE in eh_frame

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Jun 2 10:36:00 GMT 2016


Hi David,

> But I am puzzled about what to think when there
> is no CFA set at all.   It would seem to me that in such a case the
> consequence is
> defined by the ABI (or left to the agent walking the stack
> to figure something out).    I don't think it is readelf's job to
> explain that and I don't think
> your proposed output above clarifies anything.  

Fair enough - I will leave the patch as it is and check it in along
with this changelog entry.

Cheers
  Nick

binutils/ChangeLog

2016-06-02  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* dwarf.c (display_debug_frames): Do not display any
	interpretation if the block consists solely of DW__CFA_NOPs.



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