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Re: Some elfutils/libdw/cfi comments
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:06:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: Some elfutils/libdw/cfi comments
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:00 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > If you feel the current dwarf_cfi_validate_fde () addition is too hacky,
> > please don't support it. I do think it is useful though, even if it
> > might be a bit restricted/inefficient going over all FDEs with it. It
> > would help me clean up a bit of the systemtap translator code, even if
> > it won't allow me to do full fancy rewrites.
>
> I think it's OK as it is. If you are happy using it without more features,
> then let's just go with that for the foreseeable future.
Yes, that would be fine. It does what it advertises, validate the fde,
and gives the user the relevant information of the fde to use.
Thanks,
Mark