Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Ulrich Weigand <uweig...@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, SPU also supports only SJLJ exceptions ...
> 
> IIRC the main reason is because SJLJ exceptions produced smaller
> binary size.  Though I wonder if this should not be looked at again to
> see if dwarf2 eh_frame produces smaller now.

I think just the size of the DWARF2 unwinder routines themselves may
be a concern on the SPU, not even talking about the table sizes ...

In any case, I seem to recall that the DWARF2 unwinder didn't even
work anyway for some reason when I tried it.  (But this is a long
time ago -- not sure if that is still a problem.)

Bye,
Ulrich

-- 
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  ulrich.weig...@de.ibm.com

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