Re: [PATCH 7/7] DWARF: add the config option

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon May 22 2017 - 19:23:54 EST


On Mon, 22 May 2017, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > Please call it BP - 'FP' can easily be read as floating-point, making
> > it all super-confusing. We should use canonical x86 register names and
> > ordering - even if not all registers are used straight away.
>
> Seriously, I suspect that at the end of the day we will have reinvented
> DWARF.

If this is the fear, what is the proposal then? We simply have to deal
with !FRAME_POINTER builds.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs