where do stack traces get filled in?

Thu Dec 13 13:45:00 GMT 2001

Boehm, Hans writes:
 > David Mosberger has started a project to unify all the unwind code for IA64,
 > and has discussed this with Richard Henderson. This started out relying on
 > a lower level IA64-specific unwinder interface. But the latest version of
 > the interface is intended to be machine-independent.
 > 
 > I'm not sure whether this will be done in a 3.1 timeframe. (I'm personally
 > also a little concerned about doing this to close before a release.) But
 > David (and Richard?) should definitely be involved in any discussions along
 > these lines.
Oh yes., of course I wasn't suggesting that this was in any way a new
idea of mine -- I heard about the idea before in the IA-64 context.
I'm glad there is to be a real machine-independent interface -- that
will help libgcj a lot.
Andrew.