RFC: stack trace generation

Tue Jul 20 17:19:00 GMT 2004

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>>Yes. The dwarf2-backtrace.cc is probably mis-named as it uses the
>>>functions that I believe you are referring to.
>>>>>>Being a very lazy person, I am only expending GCJ effort on the
>>>platforms that I am currently paid to support (mipsel-linux*). But
>>>I have to wonder if it would not be a win to use
>>>dwarf2-backtrace.cc with the i386-linux-gnu target and enable
>>>-fomit-frame-pointer.
>>>>It might. I think that's what Bryce intended to do.
>>>> Yeah, we are definitely going to do this. The only reason it wasn't done 
> already time ago is due to the issues (PLT etc) that have been discussed 
> already.
>Correct me if I am wrong, but arn't the PLT issues related to decoding
the trace? dwarf2-backtrace.cc only generates the trace so could be
used today.
David Daney.