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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:40:59 +0100
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
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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

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