Steve Ellcey wrote: > Mason wrote: > >> Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >>> Mason wrote: >>> >>>> I'm running a mips-linux-gnu system, using >>>> gcc version 4.6.3 (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2012.03-63) >>>> >>>> mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld: >>>> compact frame descriptions incompatible with DWARF2 .eh_frame >> >> I'm downloading the source tarball right now. >> https://sourcery.mentor.com/GNUToolchain/release2190 > > If you want to use the latest CodeSourcery tools but not have the > compact frames you can use the flag '-mno-compact-eh' and you should > get the standard eh frames. That should fix your link problem. Thanks! I managed to miss this option because I kept reading man gcc, instead of man mips-linux-gnu-gcc. Doh! If I understand correctly, gcc 4.3 did not support compact frames, whereas they are used by default in 4.6, correct? Can you explain (briefly) the pros and cons of compact frames? -- Regards.
