Language-specific data area format

[Christophe de Dinechin]

Gang,


Someone at HP recently pointed out to me that there is no documentation of 
the language-specific data area at all in the current C++ ABI 
documentation hosted by CodeSourcery. I guess this was lost when we 
switched from "my" document to the HTML format.

So I attached the relevant section from the original EH document (I hope 
this will go through the mailing list). Unfortunately, I'm no longer 
working on the C++ EH often enough to validate from memory if the overview 
given there is still accurate, or if it's completely off-base. I suspect 
it's still largely valid, but the type-info representation, at the very 
least, probably needs revision.

Once this has been validated, I propose that we do the following:

- In the interim, place a link to this PDF file in place of the Level III 
"Suggested Implementation" paragraph 3.2 "Data Structures" which currently 
reads "To be supplied"

- In the long-term, convert the original text from its current format to 
HTML + GIF.


Regards,
Christophe de Dinechin

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