PATCH: Share the dwarf2 unwind code between glibc and gcc 3.0

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Mon Jul 9 13:15:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:03:58PM +0100, Jason Merrill wrote:
> I think it makes sense to provide it in glibc for backwards compatibility.
> But it should be a wrapper around the new libgcc APIs if possible.

It isn't possible.  The new API does not export anything at the same
level as __frame_state_for.  The new API correctly does not export
anything that exposes the internals of struct _Unwind_Context.

> We have only committed to backards compatibility for the libgcc ABI.
> Extensions are still possible, even likely.

Indeed.


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