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From: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] backtrace
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:46:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021003154651Z261325-8741+1357@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7453.1033637889@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>

>>>>> On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:50:03 +0200, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said:

  Keith> Most architectures compile with -fomit-frame-pointer (except
  Keith> for ARM where RMK does it differently).  Neither gdb not
  Keith> glibc can cope with kernel code built with
  Keith> -fomit-frame-pointer.  See the horrible heuristics kdb has to
  Keith> apply to get any sort of backtrace on i386.

Keith knows this, but just to be clear: there is no problem unwinding
across functions compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer on ia64.  (Other
platforms could do the same if they took advantage of DWARF2 unwind
info.)

	--david

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-03 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-02  9:22 [patch] dump_stack() cleanup, BK-curr Ingo Molnar
2002-10-02 14:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-02 16:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-03  8:31   ` [OT] backtrace Padraig Brady
2002-10-03  9:38     ` Keith Owens
2002-10-03 10:03       ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-03 13:40         ` Russell King
2002-10-03 15:46       ` David Mosberger-Tang [this message]

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