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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] backtrace
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:40:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021003144058.D2304@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021003114625.00b7ea20@pop.gmx.net>; from efault@gmx.de on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:03:27PM +0200

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:03:27PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> At 07:38 PM 10/3/2002 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> >Most architectures compile with -fomit-frame-pointer (except for ARM
> >where RMK does it differently).  Neither gdb not glibc can cope with
> >kernel code built with -fomit-frame-pointer.  See the horrible
> >heuristics kdb has to apply to get any sort of backtrace on i386.
> 
> IIRC, r~ once mentioned that it was going to get worse. He also mentioned 
> dwarf2 (sp) as a possible solution.  Did you ever look into that?

There was the offer by someone to supply some code, which as per usual
came to nothing.

Therefore its just a bad rumour as far as I'm concerned.  I can't do
everything, my days are full enough as it is.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-03 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-02  9:22 [patch] dump_stack() cleanup, BK-curr Ingo Molnar
2002-10-02 14:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-02 16:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-03  8:31   ` [OT] backtrace Padraig Brady
2002-10-03  9:38     ` Keith Owens
2002-10-03 10:03       ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-03 13:40         ` Russell King [this message]
2002-10-03 15:46       ` David Mosberger-Tang

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