cfi in asm

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Fri Dec 30 02:35:00 GMT 2005


On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:31:15PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> All archs except x86 and x86-64 are missing cfi in most or all asm
> files.  cfi is not optional, it's necessary for backtraces.  And it
> should be equivalent to async unwind tables.

Alpha assembler generates trivial cfi from .frame/.mask directives.
I only use real cfi for tricky bits.


r~



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