[PATCH v2 2/7] Define unwinding and SEH data structures for aarch64

Martin Storsjö martin@martin.st
Thu Aug 14 13:23:48 GMT 2025


Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jul 2025, Martin Storsjö wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2025, Evgeny Karpov via Binutils wrote:
>
>> Friday, May 16
>> Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> +  uint32_t regI : 4;
>>>> +  uint32_t regF : 3;
>>>> +} seh_arm64_packed_unwind_data;
>
> Are these bitfield structs used for reading/writing the data structures from 
> disk? Is any care taken to make sure this ends up right even if binutils is 
> built in big endian mode?
>
> (I presume binutils in general doesn't assume that the target endianness is 
> the same as the tool host endianness.)

I didn't see a response to this question, and I didn't see it referenced 
in the list of issues addressed in the cover letter of the new patch 
series either?

// Martin


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