problem with unwind info for .init/.fini sections

David Mosberger davidm@hpl.hp.com
Fri Feb 22 21:30:00 GMT 2002
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:58:08 -0800, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> said:

  Richard> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:54:27AM -0800, David Mosberger
  Richard> wrote:
  >> While we found the problem with ia64 linux, I suspect other
  >> platforms that rely on unwind info are likely to be affected as
  >> well.

  Richard> This is .init -- why do you care if you can unwind through
  Richard> it?

Because a debugger might need to do so.  I found the problem while
trying to print a backtrace with the Ski simulator while it was
executing inside an init function.

	--david



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