Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] DWARF: add the config option | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Mon, 22 May 2017 14:16:08 -0700 |
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On 05/22/17 04:12, Ingo Molnar wrote: \>> >> This construct might be useful for other arches, which is why I called >> it "FP" instead of "BP". But then I ruined that with the last 3 :-) > > 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.
-hpa
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