[llvm-dev] Getting _eh_frame parser for llvm

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-dev]

On 26 January 2016 at 09:19, Pete Cooper via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 7:40 AM, Dave Bozier via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> There is some eh_frame section parsing going on in the linker which is
>> required for .eh_frame_hdr creation and probably useful for dead-frame
>> elimination in the future.
> I think there's 2 linker parsers (a macho one and elf/coff), runtime dyld, and dwarf dump.
>> It would be great if there was a single
>> parser used by all llvm tools.
> Absolutely. We'll get to that stage, I hope.
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> We'll need to work out if there's a way to abstract what we need from each client without slowing down or complicating any of them too much.

+1.

A common parser is definitely a good thing.

Cheers,
Rafael