backtrace() vs. _Unwind_Backtrace()

Fri Dec 5 05:36:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:17:30 +1300, Bryce McKinlay <bryce@mckinlay.net.nz> said:

 Bryce> DWARF EH was previously enabled for Win32, but problems
 Bryce> occurred where exceptions need to be thrown through OS
 Bryce> callback frames (that don't have unwind info), which is a
 Bryce> common requirement for Win32 code, so it uses SJLJ exceptions
 Bryce> for now. So, it would need a way to unwind through info-less
 Bryce> OS frames so that the DWARF unwinder can resume unwinding on
 Bryce> the other side (ie a generalized
 Bryce> MD_FALLBACK_FRAME_STATE_FOR).
Ah, I see, so Windows/x86 does use DWARF2 unwind info, but its
incomplete. Nasty.
	--david