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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:31:06 +0100
From: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
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Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 11:22, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>>The attached (tested) patch modifies x86's dump_stack() to print out the
>>much friendlier backtrace.
> 
> How about calling it backtrace(), since that's now what it is.

Sorry to go off topic but this tip is just too useful IMHO.
You can do the same in userspace with glibc. Details here:
http://www.iol.ie/~padraiga/backtrace.c

P?draig.

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