IA-64 broken_backtrace on 4.0

Thu Jul 14 15:56:00 GMT 2005

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:51:53PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> IA-64 configure.ac on 4.0 branch doesn't define HAVE_BACKTRACE:
>> AC_CHECK_FUNC(backtrace, [
> case "$host" in
> ia64-*-linux*)
> 	 # Has broken backtrace()
> 	 ;;
>> Does anyone know *why* this is defined? 

It used to have broken backtrace() for ages, only November 2003
and later glibcs should have working backtrace() on ia64.
> Can we just delete this IA-64 special case?

Sure, just on gcc-4_0-rhl-branch or on HEAD as well?
Or do we want to add a check whether it is working
(or check for glibc version, 2.3.3 or never is ok)?
	Jakub