Re: [MiNT] Automatic -fomit-frame-pointer usage

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Patrice Mandin <mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Le Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:11:35 +0100
> Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> a écrit:
>
>> Do you think that CAN_DEBUG_WITHOUT_FP should be used for the MiNT
>> target or not ?
>
> Be careful with the frame pointer. On X86, for example, it is used to
> process exceptions in C++ programs. I don't know how it behaves in this
> case on m68k.

With DWARF frame unwind information there is no need for a frame pointer
for unwinding any more.

Andreas.

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