[freenet-tech] Technology / Features

Thu Feb 28 16:45:00 GMT 2002

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> RTH said the EH unwinder could easily be modified to fill out a stack 
> trace without actually unwinding,

I agree.
> so this is what we should do for targets using DWARF2 exceptions.

Well, since libunwind has this working (on ia64, at the moment) it would
make sense to look at their API, with or without using any of their code.
The intent of the author, David Mosberger, seems to be making this a
drop-in replacement and perhaps offer it to gcc and/or glibc.
I don't know what rth plans to do. Here's a link:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2002-01/msg00034.html
Jeff