[llvm-dev] Getting _eh_frame parser for llvm

Igor Laevsky via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Jan 20 06:52:53 PST 2016


> On 20 January 2016 at 09:21, Igor Laevsky via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Not so long ago we have found ourselves in need of a robust _eh_frame parser. All we wanted is the ability to parse .eh_frame section emitted by LLVM's MCJIT. Considering this, LLVM would be a natural place for implementing such parser.
>> 
>> Previous email thread about the issue (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/llvm-dev/Vb_VYU7Eo0k) showed some interest among the community. Folks seemed to agree that DebugInfo is a good place to put implementation in.
>> 
>> Next there was submission by Pete Cooper (http://reviews.llvm.org/D15535). It completely covered the issue. However it was reverted due to some windows test failures and wasn’t resubmitted since. While I was adapting Pete’s parser for our needs I have found a couple of small issues in it. However I can’t check if they were causing original failures.
>> 
>> So the question is what is the right way of moving this forward?
> 
> I would suggest first trying to reproduce the original issue on
> windows and fixing just that.
> 
> Improvements can than be discussed independently.

Unfortunately I can't find any record of the original test failure. Is there a way to search for it in the buildbot archives? 

> 
> Cheers,
> Rafael



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