Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:09:46 -0400
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 CFI annotations
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:49:14AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > But truly I think the processor-specific pieces of Dwarf's
> > frame unwind spec should provide numbering for the complete set of
> > registers.
> 
> Except there is no standards body for this.  So *someone* will
> have to make it up.
> 
> Make it up and put it in gas and gdb: that will make it a defacto standard.

Agreed.  If it makes you feel better, we could ask the DWARF committee to
maintain a repository of processor-specific documents.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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