Re: [PATCH] ia64: unwind directive handling

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>]

So Jim, should I remove .vframepsp altogether in the to-be-updated the patch? Jan

>>> "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> 13.06.05 09:06:52 >>>
>>> Cary Coutant <cary@cup.hp.com> 10.06.05 23:52:01 >>>
>> I checked the SCRA.  Appendix B constains tables listing all of the 
>> valid
>> unwind encodings.  This does not include psp_psprel.  I see that it 
>> comes
>> from the .vframepsp directive.  Curiously, the asm language manual has 
>> two
>> typos in the vframepsp docs.  It emits two unwind records, and both of 
>> them
>> are mispelled.  Maybe this is a late change that was never properly 
>> documented.
>> How do you know that P8 r=0 is correct?
>
>Jim is right -- there is no psp_psprel unwind directive, and Format P8, 
>r=0 is unassigned.

As I said, ias uses this, so it can't be completely invalid.

>If you think about it, storing the previous stack pointer at a location 
>relative to psp is pointless at best, since you would need to know the 
>psp in order to recover the psp!

Hmm, indeed. This, however, still doesn't mean no change is needed; .vframepsp itself is pointless, then, and support for it should be removed.

Jan