Hi, the dwarf3 DW_OP_call_frame_cfa implicitly refers to .debug_frame section. But if we aren't emitting dwarf unwinding info, it isn't anymore well defined.
There is one target that doesn't emit dwarf unwind info: ia64. And gdb is not able to deal with DW_OP_call_frame_cfa on ia64, thus breaking -gdwarf-3. I think the simplest is to disable this opcode for such targets. Manually tested with gdb on ia64-linux. No regressions for x86_64-darwin. Ok for trunk ? Tristan. 2012-03-14 Tristan Gingold <ging...@adacore.com> * dwarf2out.c (gen_subprogram_die): Require dwarf unwinding to use DW_OP_call_frame_cfa. diff --git a/gcc/dwarf2out.c b/gcc/dwarf2out.c index b5f921a..b43dfcf 100644 --- a/gcc/dwarf2out.c +++ b/gcc/dwarf2out.c @@ -17485,7 +17485,7 @@ gen_subprogram_die (tree decl, dw_die_ref context_die) (3) We can at least reuse the code inspection and interpretation code that determines the CFA position at various points in the function. */ - if (dwarf_version >= 3) + if (dwarf_version >= 3 && targetm.debug_unwind_info () == UI_DWARF2) { dw_loc_descr_ref op = new_loc_descr (DW_OP_call_frame_cfa, 0, 0); add_AT_loc (subr_die, DW_AT_frame_base, op);