.eh_frame, .eh_frame_hdr - how to remove that trash

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Oct 20 08:23:03 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:41:24AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> how to do this and what the hell it is used at all?

It is used to allow unwinding stack frames. That is required for
exception handling with C++ and also to allow debugging in the presence
of -fomit-frame-pointer, e.g. as used by default on AMD64.

Joerg


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