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Re: [RFC]: .eh_frame section in mingw32 executables
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>, Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:55:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC]: .eh_frame section in mingw32 executables
- References: <F8629577-8DFF-404C-8D50-8D9AFEC422D6@adacore.com>
Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there something wrong with the following patch ? We'd like to have
> an .eh_frame section
> in win32/win64 executables so that gdb could print backtraces even for
> files not compiled with -g.
Can you explain what it does, how it does it and why in a bit more detail
please? You're changing the behaviour of relocatable links to keep the
.eh_data in its own section instead of merging it into .rdata, yes?
cheers,
DaveK