clang is experimental on powerpc-darwin, but the changes are appropriate to cctools as as well.
Use the 'official' simplified cmpwi insn, rather than the implied one accepted by cctools.
Do not re-use a set value.
EHFrame{N} IIRC is a special cue to ld64 that it should treat the unwind
in the object as "special/legacy" .. [these days everything is .cfi_xxxx
(except, cctools-as, as you noted)] .. without that much confusion arises
with ld64's atom-isation of the eh_frame section.
xxxx.eh labels are not needed for darwin ld64 >= 85.2.1 (i.e. darwin9,
xcode 3.1.4) to all intents and purposes, that's all that matters now,
since I think that anyone trying to build on 10.4/darwin8/xcode2.5 would
have to use a later ld64 (from odcctools) for other reasons.
Iain Sandoe