[PATCH, V2 8/9] NEWS: sframe: mention new semantics for SFrame FDE function start addr

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Fri Jun 6 10:23:28 GMT 2025


On 04.06.2025 09:08, Indu Bhagat via Binutils wrote:
> The SFrame FDE's function start address is always emitted as follows by
> GAS and ld:  it is the offset of the start PC of the respective function
> from the FDE field itself.
> 
> GAS and ld will emit a flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_ADDR_PCREL set to 1
> when emitting the field in this encoding.

With this, ...

> binutils/
> 	* NEWS: Announce the change of encoding for SFrame FDE func
> 	start addr field.

... why is it binutils/NEWS where the entry is added? I think this ought to
go into gas/NEWS (the producer) and maybe also ld/NEWS (the main affected
[internal] consumer).

Jan


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