Re: [PATCH] fix vsyscall unwind information

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@mostang.com)
Mon, 5 May 2003 08:05:58 -0700


>>>>> On Mon, 5 May 2003 00:42:48 -0700, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> said:

>> If not, could one be added?

Richard> Why? Certainly it isn't needed for x86.

Certain applications (such as debuggers) want to know. Sure, you can
do symbol matching (if you have the symbol table) or code-reading
(assuming you know the exact sigreturn sequence), but having a marker
would be more reliable and faster.

--david
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