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Re: [RFA] bfd/elf-eh-frame.c: return address column of CIE
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:18:33AM +0900, kaz Kojima wrote:
> I'm just a little confused. It seems that GCC uses DWARF v2 not v3
> format about this. gcc/dwarf2out.c (output_call_frame) outputs this
> entry like as:
>
> ...
> dw2_asm_output_data_sleb128 (DWARF_CIE_DATA_ALIGNMENT,
> "CIE Data Alignment Factor");
> dw2_asm_output_data (1, DWARF_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN, "CIE RA Column");
> ...
>
> but binutils uses DWARF v3. Does it mean that we should fix gcc?
Well, gcc is slowly moving towards DWARF v3.
Unless some architecture defines DWARF_FRAME_RETURN_COLUMN to 128 or bigger,
this actually makes zero difference for gcc, but yes, gcc should be changed.
Jakub