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From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Don't allow ia64 unwind section to point to section in different files
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:58:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050516135821.GA2538@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050513214612.GA31765@lucon.org>

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 02:26:36AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> 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.

Since the weak function is still in the executable, its unwind info is
also there. That is what you see in kernel.


H.J.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-16 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-13 21:46 PATCH: Don't allow ia64 unwind section to point to section in different files H. J. Lu
2005-05-13 21:58 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-16  9:26 ` David Mosberger
2005-05-16 13:58 ` H. J. Lu [this message]

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