[PATCH,V2 1/1] Add SHT_GNU_SFRAME

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jul 1 14:11:07 GMT 2025


* Jose E. Marchesi via Gnu-gabi:

>> * Jose E. Marchesi:
>>
>>>>> I am going to send a merge request for Linux-ABI to document PT_GNU_SFRAME.
>>>>
>>>> Why shouldn't this go into the generic gABI?  Is it really going to be
>>>> Linux-specific?
>>>
>>> I think we originally went with a PT_GNU_SFRAME segment type because
>>> PT_GNU_EH_FRAME is also in the OS range.  It would then make sense to
>>> also define a SHT_GNU_SFRAME in the OS range rather..
>>
>> But the OS is GNU, not Linux? 8-)
>>
>> (It looks like there's nothing in the proposed spot on the FreeBSD side
>> at least.)
>
> Yes indeed.
>
> I thought Indu's patch was for the gnu-gabi.
> Is it not?
>
> /me confused 8-)

It was.  But then H.J. asked for it to apply it to the Linux ABI
instead.  Which I think is not the best place. 8-)

Thanks,
Florian



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