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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] dump_stack(): arch-neutral stack trace
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:34:50 +0200
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 03:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From Christoph Hellwig, also present in 2.4.
> 
> Create an arch-independent `dump_stack()' function.  So we don't need to do
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86
> 	show_stack(0);		/* No prototype in scope! */
> #endif
> 
> any more.
> 
> The whole dump_stack() implementation is delegated to the architecture.
> If it doesn't provide one, there is a default do-nothing library
> function.

Is there a reason for not calling it "backtrace()" ?

-- 
Daniel