[llvm-dev] Getting _eh_frame parser for llvm

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-dev]

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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

Cheers,
Rafael