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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] DWARF: add the config option
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On Mon, 22 May 2017, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > 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.

If this is the fear, what is the proposal then? We simply have to deal 
with !FRAME_POINTER builds.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs