[freenet-tech] Technology / Features

Fri Mar 1 00:31:00 GMT 2002

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > 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.
DWARF2 is certainly the way to do it, and I expect that glibc will
eventually work that way.
Andrew.