On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

Initially we had some bugs that accounted for near all failures, but they 
were all fixed in the latest version.

No. The real bugs were that the people involved wouldn't even accept that 
unwinding information was inevitably buggy and/or incomplete.

That much more fundamental bug never got fixed, as far as I know. 

I'm not going to merge anything that depends on unwind tables as things 
stand. The pain just isn't worth it.

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Please don't subject us to another couple months of hair-pulling only
to have Linus yank the thing out again, there are certainly more
useful things to spend time on :-)

Good call. Dwarf2 unwinding simply isn't worth doing. But I won't yank it 
out, I simply won't merge it. It was more than just totally buggy code, it 
was an inability of the people to understand that even bugfree code 
isn't enough - you have to be able to also handle buggy data.

		Linus