[freenet-tech] Technology / Features

Thu Feb 28 15:55:00 GMT 2002

On 28 Feb 2002, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Interestingly, why does gcj use DWARF2 info to generate stack traces
> on Linux instead of just doing this?

It doesn't. It uses the backtrace function from glibc.
However backtrace doesn't work on a few targets (alpha) where we can't
walk the stack. For those we could possibly use libunwind, which I
haven't closely examined yet. And libunwind is based on DWARF2.
Jeff