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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 09:26:36 +0000
Subject: Re: PATCH: Don't allow ia64 unwind section to point to section in different files
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>>>>> On Fri, 13 May 2005 14:58:15 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:

  HJ> Well, it isn't very useful. The problem is libc.a has many weak
  HJ> functions and user can override them. My patch will make it
  HJ> impossible on ia64. I guess we may have to live with the
  HJ> imperfect unwind info when weak functions are used. The unwinder
  HJ> may have to deal with it.

Huh?  How do you propose it deal with it?

Wrong unwind info will break exception handling.  I don't think that's
acceptable.

	--david