kernel/eka/compsupp/symaehabi/Readme
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Exceptions library release 2.01.
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This source code is intended to be compliant with release 2.0 of the
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EHABI.
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Changes against the 2.0 (November 2004) release of these sources are as
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follows:
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1) Changed licence agreement.
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2) Minor bug fix to restoring VFP registers on some architectures.
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The 2.0 (November 2004) source releases contained the following changes
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against the February 2004 release:
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1) Minor changes due to progress on the ARM toolchain itself.
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2) A small amount of tidying up.
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3) Changes to reflect the resolutions agreed in the conference calls,
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namely fixes for type matching, for unwinding frames in which VFP
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registers were saved by FSTMD (instead of FSTMX), and for consequences
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arising from the use of different relocations.
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4) The personality routine now defends itself a little against broken
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unwind instructions, by verifying that the notional return address is
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updated by the unwinding instructions. Also the unwinding of WMMX
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registers was performed incorrectly.
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5) In the unwinder, __ARM_Unwind_VRS_corerestore is now safe against
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data aborts occurring while restoring the core registers from the stack.